This host is running EMC Data Protection Advisor and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.

Successful exploitation will allow attackers to cause denial of service condition. Impact Level: Application

Vendor has released a patch to fix this issue, please refer below link for patch details. http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Apr/att-132/ESA-2012-018.txt

The flaw is due to an NULL pointer dereference error in the DPA Controller and Listener service when processing certain authentication packets sent to port 3916/TCP and 4001/TCP, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected server.

EMC Data Protection Advisor version 5.8.1 Build 5991 and prior

• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/dpa_1-adv.txt
• http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6132_102-5292999.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48658
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1026878
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18688/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522408/30/0/threaded

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Updated on 2015-03-25