CA ARCserve Backup xdr_rwsstring buffer overflow

Added: 05/27/2008 CVE: CVE-2008-2242 BID: 29283 OSVDB: 45368 Background CA ARCserve Backup formerly BrightStor ARCserve Backup is a backup and recovery solution. It runs several services which use the SUN Remote Procedure Call SUN-RPC protocol. SUN-RPC messages are defined using the External Data...

CVE-2008-2242: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Multiple buffer overflows in xdr functions in the server in CA BrightStor ARCServe Backup 11.0, 11.1, and 11.5 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated by a stack-based buffer overflow via a long parameter to the xdrrwsstring function...