28108 : Symantec Enterprise Security Manager Crafted ESM Agent Request DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2006-08-21

Keywords

SYM06-016

Description

Enterprise Security Manager contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered due to a race condition when processing specially crafted request sent to the manager server to simulate an ESM agent, and will result in loss of availability for the service.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Race Condition
Impact: Loss of Availability
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Security Software

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Symantec Corporation has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Symantec Corporation
Watch-list
Enterprise Security Manager
Watch-list
6.0
6.5.0

References

Credit

  • Anthony Bettini - McAfee

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-08-24 | Disagree?

Access_vector_2 Access_complexity_2 Authentication_2 Confidentiality_impact_0 Integrity_impact_0 Availability_impact_1

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