CVE-2008-1979 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Discovery Service (casdscvc) of CA ARCserve Backup 12.0.5454.0 and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the service by sending a specially crafted packet with a large integer value to TCP port 41523, leading to a buffer over-read. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial impact on availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and showing no active community discussion or media coverage, a public exploit (EDB-31707) is available on ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 12.0.5454.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:broadcom:brightstor_arcserve_backup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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