CVE-2006-5171: Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 16.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the RPC interface in Mediasvr.exe in Computer Associates (CA) Brightstor ARCserve Backup 9.01 through 11.5, Enterprise Backup 10.5, and CA Protection Suites r2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted SUNRPC packets, aka the "Mediasvr.exe Overflow," a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5172.

Affected products

• Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup: up to and including 11.5; version 9.01 only
• Broadcom Brightstor Enterprise Backup: version 10.5 only
• Ca Protection Suites: version r2 only

Published 2007-01-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.