CVE-2006-0995 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in EMC Dantz Retrospect backup clients by sending malformed packets to TCP port 497.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-0995?
CVE-2006-0995 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Mar 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
EMC Dantz Retrospect 7 backup client 7.0.107, and other versions before 7.0.109, and 6.5 before 6.5.138 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client termination and loss of backup service) via a malformed packet to TCP port 497, which triggers an assert error.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-0995?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Emc Dantz Retrospect.
How do I fix CVE-2006-0995?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-0995 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-0995 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-0995 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jmm4-264p-h6p7.