Symantec pcAnywhere Denial of Service Vulnerability
Last Update Date:
23 Feb 2012 10:21
Release Date:
23 Feb 2012
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RISK: Extremely High Risk
TYPE: Clients - Productivity Products
A vulnerability has been identified in Symantec pcAnywhere, which can be exploited to cause denial of service conditions.
A remote user can send specially crafted data to TCP port 5631 to cause the target awhost32 service to crash.
Note:
- Vendor supplied patch is not available.
- Exploit code is publicly available.
Impact
- Denial of Service
System / Technologies affected
- Version 12.5.0 build 463 and prior versions
Solutions
- Note: Vendor supplied patch is not available.
- Workaround: Restrict access to trusted hosts only.
Vulnerability Identifier
- No CVE information is available
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