CVE-2006-0991: Veritas Netbackup

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 11.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the NetBackup Sharepoint Services server daemon (bpspsserver) on NetBackup 6.0 for Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted "Request Service" packets to the vnetd service (TCP port 13724).

Affected products

• Veritas Netbackup: version 4.5.0 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2006-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.