CVE-2008-0638: Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) service (aka vxsvc.exe) in Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a packet with a crafted value of a certain size field, which is not checked for consistency with the actual buffer size.

Affected products

• Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation: version 5.0 only

Published 2008-02-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.