CVE-2008-1979: Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Discovery Service (casdscvc) in CA ARCserve Backup 12.0.5454.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with a large integer value used in an increment to TCP port 41523, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Affected products

• Broadcom Brightstor Arcserve Backup: up to and including 12.0.5454.0

Published 2008-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.