Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-42306 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Veritas Netbackup

CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

LOW

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

veritas

CWE-476

NVD

Published: 2022-10-03

Updated: 2022-10-04

Summary

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup through 8.2 and related Veritas products. An attacker with local access can send a crafted packet to pbx_exchange during registration and cause a NULL pointer exception, effectively crashing the pbx_exchange process.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Veritas Veritas Netbackup - Veritas Netbackup 4.5.0 Veritas Netbackup 5.0.0 Veritas Netbackup 5.1.0 Veritas Netbackup 7.0 Veritas Netbackup 7.0.1 Veritas Netbackup 7.1.0.1 Veritas Netbackup 7.1.0.2 Veritas Netbackup 7.1.0.3 Veritas Netbackup 7.1.0.4 Veritas Netbackup 7.5.0.1 Veritas Netbackup 7.5.0.3 Veritas Netbackup 7.5.0.4 Veritas Netbackup 7.5.0.5 Veritas Netbackup 7.5.0.6 Veritas Netbackup 7.5.0.7 Veritas Netbackup 7.6.0.2 Veritas Netbackup 7.6.0.3 Veritas Netbackup 7.6.0.4 Veritas Netbackup 7.6.1.1 Veritas Netbackup 7.6.1.2 Veritas Netbackup 7.7.1 Veritas Netbackup 8.0 Veritas Netbackup 8.1.1 Veritas Netbackup 8.1.2 Veritas Netbackup 8.2	39

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

References

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/security/VTS22-010#M1