PT-2022-26361 · Veritas · Veritas Netbackup

Published 2022-10-03 · Updated 2022-10-04 · CVE-2022-42306

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Veritas NetBackup versions prior to 8.3

Description An issue was discovered that allows an attacker with local access to send a crafted packet to pbx exchange during registration, causing a NULL pointer exception and effectively crashing the pbx exchange process.

Recommendations For versions prior to 8.3, update to version 8.3 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting local access to prevent potential exploitation.

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-42306

Affected Products

Veritas Netbackup

References · 3

• https://veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-010#M1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42306 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-42306 · Vendor Advisory