CVE-2006-0306: Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup Laptops Desktops

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 12.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DM Primer (dmprimer.exe) in the DM Deployment Common Component in Computer Associates (CA) BrightStor Mobile Backup r4.0, BrightStor ARCserve Backup for Laptops & Desktops r11.0, r11.1, r11.1 SP1, Unicenter Remote Control 6.0, 6.0 SP1, CA Desktop Protection Suite r2, CA Server Protection Suite r2, and CA Business Protection Suite r2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or application hang) via a large network packet, which causes a WSAEMESGSIZE error code that is not handled, leading to a thread exit.

Affected products

• Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup Laptops Desktops: version 11.0 only; version 11.1 only
• Broadcom Brightstor Mobile Backup: version r4.0 only
• Broadcom Business Protection Suite: version 2.0 only
• Broadcom Desktop Protection Suite: version 2.0 only
• Broadcom Server Protection Suite: version 2 only
• Broadcom Unicenter Remote Control: version 5.2 only; version 6.0 only
• Ca Unicenter Remote Control: version 6.0 only; version 6.0_build_6.0.56.3 only; version 6.0_build_6.0.74 only

Published 2006-01-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.