CVE-2005-3316 Information

Description

The installation of ON Symantec Discovery 4.5.x and Symantec Discovery 6.0 creates the (1) DiscoveryWeb and (2) DiscoveryRO database accounts with null passwords which could allow attackers to gain privileges or prevent Discovery from running by setting another password.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/17302 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/112 http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.10.24.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1015097 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15188