Intrusion PreventionSymantec.pcAnywhere.Buffer.Overflow
Description
This indicates an attack attempt to exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability in Symantec pcAnywhere.
The vulnerability is caused by an unspecified boundary checking error, that could be triggered prior to user authentication, which could lead to denial of service.
Affected Products
Symantec pcAnywhere 11.5.1
Symantec pcAnywhere 11.5
Symantec pcAnywhere 11.0.1
Symantec pcAnywhere 11.0
Symantec pcAnywhere 10.5
Symantec pcAnywhere 10.0
Symantec pcAnywhere 9.2
Symantec pcAnywhere 9.0.1
Symantec pcAnywhere 9.0
Symantec pcAnywhere 8.0.2
Symantec pcAnywhere 8.0.1
Impact
Denial of Service: Remote attackers can crash vulnerable systems.
Recommended Actions
Apply patches for consumer versions of Symantec pcAnywhere :
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/files/pca/index.html
Apply patches for enterprise versions of Symantec pcAnywhere :
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/enterprise/products/spca/files.html
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 13516 |
| Created | Oct 20, 2006 |
| Updated | Nov 15, 2021 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2005-3934 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 74.61% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows |
| Affected App | Other |