CVE-2005-3566: Symantec Veritas Cluster Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in various ha commands of VERITAS Cluster Server for UNIX before 4.0MP2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long VCSI18N_LANG environment variable to (1) haagent, (2) haalert, (3) haattr, (4) hacli, (5) hacli_runcmd, (6) haclus, (7) haconf, (8) hadebug, (9) hagrp, (10) hahb, (11) halog, (12) hareg, (13) hares, (14) hastatus, (15) hasys, (16) hatype, (17) hauser, and (18) tststew.

Affected products

• Symantec Veritas Cluster Server: version 2.2 only; version 2.2_linux only; version 2.2_linux_mp1p1 only; version 2.2_mp1 only; version 2.2_mp2 only; version 3.5 only; …
• Symantec Veritas Sanpoint Control Quickstart: version 3.5_solaris only
• Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation: version 1.0_aix only; version 2.2_linux only; version 2.2_vmware_esx only; version 3.0_aix only; version 3.4_aix only; version 3.5_hp-ux only; …
• Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System: version 4.0_aix only; version 4.0_linux only; version 4.0_solaris only

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