An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and earlier and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier. A local-privilege-escalation race condition in pbx_exchange can occur when a local user connects to a socket before permissions are secured.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-15465 An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup 8.0 and earlier and NetBackup Appliance 3.0 and earlier. A local-privilege-escalation race condition in pbx_exchange can occur when a local user connects to a socket before permissions are secured.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:25:49.258Z

Reserved: 2017-03-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-6408

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-03-02T06:59:01.120

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-6408

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