CVE-2004-1172: Symantec Veritas Backup Exec

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 81.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Agent Browser in Veritas Backup Exec 8.x before 8.60.3878 Hotfix 68, and 9.x before 9.1.4691 Hotfix 40, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a registration request with a long hostname.

Affected products

• Symantec Veritas Backup Exec: version 8.0 only; version 8.5 only; version 8.6 only; version 9.0 only; version 9.1 only

Published 2005-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.