CVE-2005-2389

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2005-2389 · Published 27/07/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-2389 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting netbackup enterprise server (symantec veritas), netbackup server (symantec veritas).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 64.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
netbackup enterprise server symantec_veritas	`= 5.1`	No fix yet
netbackup server symantec_veritas	`= 5.1`	No fix yet

Description

NDMP server in Veritas NetBackup 5.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a CONFIG message with an out-of-range timestamp, which triggers a null dereference.

References

secunia.com/advisories/16187 · Vendor Advisory
hat-squad.com/en/000170.html · Vendor Advisory

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