CVE-2012-0291
Description
Symantec pcAnywhere through 12.5.3, Altiris IT Management Suite pcAnywhere Solution 7.0 (aka 12.5.x) and 7.1 (aka 12.6.x), Altiris Client Management Suite pcAnywhere Solution 7.0 (aka 12.5.x) and 7.1 (aka 12.6.x), and Altiris Deployment Solution Remote pcAnywhere Solution 7.1 (aka 12.5.x and 12.6.x) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or hang) via (1) malformed data from a client, (2) malformed data from a server, or (3) an invalid response.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| symantec | pcanywhere | {"endIncluding":"12.5"} | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 10.0 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 10.5 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 11.0 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 11.0.1 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 11.5 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 11.5.1 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 12.0 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 12.0.1 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 12.0.2 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 12.0.3 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 12.1 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 12.5 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 12.5.3 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 12.5.265 | |
| symantec | pcanywhere | 12.5.539 | |
| symantec | altiris_client_management_suite_pcanywhere_solution | 7.0 | |
| symantec | altiris_deployment_solution_remote_pcanywhere_solution | 7.1 | |
| symantec | altiris_it_management_suite_pcanywhere_solution | 7.0 | |
| symantec | altiris_it_management_suite_pcanywhere_solution | 7.1 | |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48092
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51965
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120124_00
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48092
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51965
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120124_00
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.