CVE-2007-6017 Information

Description

The PVATLCalendar.PVCalendar.1 ActiveX control in pvcalendar.ocx in the scheduler component in the Media Server in Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Server (BEWS) 11d 11.0.6235 and 11.0.7170 and 12.0 12.0.1364 exposes the unsafe Save method which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) or create or overwrite arbitrary files via string values of the (1) _DOWText0 (2) _DOWText1 (3) _DOWText2 (4) _DOWText3 (5) _DOWText4 (6) _DOWText5 (7) _DOWText6 (8) _MonthText0 (9) _MonthText1 (10) _MonthText2 (11) _MonthText3 (12) _MonthText4 (13) _MonthText5 (14) _MonthText6 (15) _MonthText7 (16) _MonthText8 (17) _MonthText9 (18) _MonthText10 and (19) _MonthText11 properties. NOTE: the vendor states \Authenticated user involvement required\ but authentication is not needed to attack a client machine that loads this control.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/27885 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-101/ http://securitytracker.com/id?1019525 http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/300471.htm http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/308669.htm http://support.veritas.com/docs/300471 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28008 http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.28.html http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.02.29.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0718 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2672