CVE-2012-0292

medium

Published 2012-03-08 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

The awhost32 service in 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) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted TCP session on port 5631.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18493 dos windows

Johnathan Norman · 2012-02-17

pcAnywhere 12.5.0 build 463 - Denial of Service

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
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_climentent_manage_suite_pcanywhere_solution	`7.1`
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

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.