National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2359
Original release date:04/30/2007
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in Ghost Service Manager, as used in Symantec Norton Ghost, Norton Save & Recovery, LiveState Recovery, and BackupExec System Recovery before 20070426, allows local users to gain privileges via a long string.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1552
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.04.26.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: IDEFENSE
Name: 20070426 Symantec Norton Ghost 10 Service Manager Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: symantec-backup-unspecified-bo(33931)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017971
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25013
