CVE-2008-3290: Emc Dantz Retrospect Backup Client

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

retroclient.exe in EMC Dantz Retrospect Backup Client 7.5.116 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a series of long packets containing 0x00 characters to TCP port 497 that trigger memory corruption, probably involving an English product version on a Chinese OS version.

Affected products

• Emc Dantz Retrospect Backup Client: version 7.5.116 only

Published 2008-07-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.