CVE-2008-4638: Symantec Veritas File System

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

qioadmin in the Quick I/O for Database feature in Symantec Veritas File System (VxFS) on HP-UX, and before 5.0 MP3 on Solaris, Linux, and AIX, allows local users to read arbitrary files by causing qioadmin to write a file's content to standard error in an error message.

Affected products

• Symantec Veritas File System: version 5.0 only; version unknown only

Published 2008-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.