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Title: PCAnywhere32 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

Servers running PCAnywhere32 with TCP/IP networking are subject to a Denial of Service attack that will hang the server at 100% CPU utilization. A malicious user may initiate this DoS by connecting to tcp port 5631 on the PCAnywhere server input a large amount of data when prompted with "Please press <Enter>".

Affected Products:

  • Symantec PCAnywhere32 8.0.0

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