Revision History
Added a note to specifically identify that Symantec BackupExec Data Backup and Recovery products are not affected by any of these issues.

Risk Impact
Medium

Remote	No
Local Access	Yes
Authentication Required	No
Exploit publicly available	No

Overview
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Norton Ghost, Norton Save & Recovery, LiveState Recovery and BackupExec System Recovery.

Vulnerable Products

Products	Versions
Norton Ghost	10.0
	10.01
Norton Ghost for Norton System Works	10.0
Norton Ghost for Dell	10.0
Norton Save & Recovery	11.0
	11.01
	11.01B
Norton Save & Recovery for Norton System Works 2007	1.01B
Norton Save & Recovery Sony Euro	1.01
Symantec LiveState Recovery	6.0
	6.01
	6.02
Symantec BackupExec System Recovery	6.5
	6.52
	6.52A
	6.53

Note: Symantec BackupExec. Versions 10x and 11d, Symantec's Backup and Recovery product, is not affected by this vulnerability.

Details
Scheduled backups of local disks saved to remote network shares saves login credentials, for the remote share, into the application directory with read access set for everyone.

A buffer overflow exists that can cause a denial of service or possibly allow local users to run code with System level privileges.

Symantec Response
Symantec has released updates for all affected product version currently supported by Symantec. These updates are available through LiveUpdate.

To date, Symantec is not aware of any reported attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

Credit
Symantec would like to thank Pravus for reporting this issue to iDefense Labs. Symantec would like to thank iDefense Labs for reporting these issues to Symantec, and working with us on the resolution.

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