CVE-2012-0407

medium
Published 2012-04-20 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

Integer overflow in the DPA_Utilities library in EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) 5.5 through 5.8 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a negative 64-bit value in a certain size field.

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-18688 dos hardware verified
Luigi Auriemma ยท 2012-03-31

EMC Data Protection Advisor 5.8.1 - Denial of Service

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
dell emcdata_protection_advisor5.5
dell emcdata_protection_advisor5.6
dell emcdata_protection_advisor5.7
dell emcdata_protection_advisor5.8

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.