CVE-2005-3116: Symantec Veritas Netbackup

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 27.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in a shared library as used by the Volume Manager daemon (vmd) in VERITAS NetBackup Enterprise Server 5.0 MP1 to MP5 and 5.1 up to MP3A allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet.

Affected products

• Symantec Veritas Netbackup: version 5.0_with_mp1 only; version 5.0_with_mp2 only; version 5.0_with_mp3 only; version 5.0_with_mp4 only; version 5.0_with_mp5 only; version 5.1_with_mp1 only; …

Published 2005-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.