Veritas plugs a bunch of NetBackup vulns

Veritas has patched multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in its NetBackup software and the appliance by the same name. The vulnerabilities should be patched with this hotfix as soon as possible. The affected versions are NetBackup 7.7.2, 7.7.3, and 8.0; and NetBackup Appliances 2.7.2, 2.7.3, and 3.0 (which is also …

[Anonymous Coward]

Interesting to note that now it's back with Veritas, no longer with those useless twats Symantec, problems are being fixed.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hopefully the problems continue to be fixed.

NetBackup seems to be the only game in town for large enterprise backup, and there are some truly er... interesting security problems in the last few versions (at least 5.x onwards).