CVE-2007-4516 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash or hang the Veritas Storage Foundation scheduler service by sending malformed packets, causing denial of service.
- 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-2007-4516?
CVE-2007-4516 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 21 Feb 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Volume Manager Scheduler Service (aka VxSchedService.exe) in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 for Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via malformed packets.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-4516?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation.
How do I fix CVE-2007-4516?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-4516 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-2007-4516 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-4516 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jc9m-67cw-qp9r.