CVE-2005-0772: Veritas Backup Exec

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 35.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VERITAS Backup Exec 9.0 through 10.0 for Windows Servers, and 9.0.4019 through 9.1.307 for Netware, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Remote Agent crash) via (1) a crafted packet in NDMLSRVR.DLL or (2) a request packet with an invalid (non-0) "Error Status" value, which triggers a null dereference.

Affected products

• Veritas Backup Exec: from 9.0, up to and including 10.0; from 9.0.4019, up to and including 9.1.307

Published 2005-06-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.