CVE-2005-2079: Symantec Veritas Backup Exec

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Admin Plus Pack Option for VERITAS Backup Exec 9.0 through 10.0 for Windows Servers allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Symantec Veritas Backup Exec: version 9.0_rev.4367 only; version 9.0_rev.4454 only; version 9.1_rev.4691 only; version 10.0_rev.5484 only

Published 2005-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.