National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6017

Overview

The PVATLCalendar.PVCalendar.1 ActiveX control in pvcalendar.ocx in the scheduler component in the Media Server in Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Server (BEWS) 11d 11.0.6235 and 11.0.7170, and 12.0 12.0.1364, exposes the unsafe Save method, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash), or create or overwrite arbitrary files, via string values of the (1) _DOWText0, (2) _DOWText1, (3) _DOWText2, (4) _DOWText3, (5) _DOWText4, (6) _DOWText5, (7) _DOWText6, (8) _MonthText0, (9) _MonthText1, (10) _MonthText2, (11) _MonthText3, (12) _MonthText4, (13) _MonthText5, (14) _MonthText6, (15) _MonthText7, (16) _MonthText8, (17) _MonthText9, (18) _MonthText10, and (19) _MonthText11 properties. NOTE: the vendor states "Authenticated user involvement required," but authentication is not needed to attack a client machine that loads this control.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2672

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2672

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-0718

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0718

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.29.html

Hyperlink:http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.29.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.28.html

Hyperlink:http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.28.html

External Source: BID

Name: 28008

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28008

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.veritas.com/docs/300471

Hyperlink:http://support.veritas.com/docs/300471

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/308669.htm

Hyperlink:http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/308669.htm

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/300471.htm

Hyperlink:http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/300471.htm

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1019525

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1019525

External Source: MISC

Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-101/

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-101/

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27885

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27885