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A very old flaw in Symantec pcAnywhere versions 8.0 and 9.0 lets a remote user crash or disrupt the remote-access service by cutting the connection before the login prompt is shown. There is no data theft or code execution reported, only a denial-of-service condition against the pcAnywhere host. Exposure today is minimal. pcAnywhere 8.0/9.0 are end-of-life products from the late 1990s and Symantec discontinued the pcAnywhere line entirely in 2014. Any remaining internet-exposed installs of that vintage would be an outsized concern for other reasons well before this DoS. Low priority. This is a 25-year-old denial-of-service issue in a discontinued remote-access product. Business risk exists only if legacy pcAnywhere hosts remain in the environment, in which case retiring them addresses this and many worse exposures at once. Mitigation focus: Inventory any legacy Symantec pcAnywhere hosts and decommission them; the product line is end-of-life.; If pcAnywhere must remain temporarily, restrict TCP 5631/5632 to trusted management VLANs or VPN only.; Replace with a supported remote-access platform that receives current vendor patches..
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