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CVE-2012-0406: The DPA_Utilities.cProcessAuthenticationData function in EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) 5.5 through 5.8...

The DPA_Utilities.cProcessAuthenticationData function in EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) 5.5 through 5.8 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an AUTHENTICATECONNECTION command that (1) lacks a password field or (2) has an empty password.

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CVE-2012-0406 is a denial-of-service flaw in legacy EMC Data Protection Advisor. A remote attacker can crash a DPA daemon by sending malformed authentication data with a missing or empty password. The business impact is service disruption to backup monitoring and reporting, not confirmed data theft. Exposure is limited to organizations still running EMC Data Protection Advisor 5.5 through 5.8 SP1, especially where DPA services are reachable from untrusted networks. The provided sources do not identify affected CPEs or modern Dell product lineage. Treat this as a moderate operational resilience issue. Prioritize if legacy DPA still supports backup visibility, compliance reporting, or recovery assurance, because disruption could obscure backup failures during an incident. Mitigation focus: Check EMC/Dell advisory ESA-2012-018 for supported fixed versions or vendor remediation guidance.; Restrict network access to DPA services to trusted administration and monitoring hosts.; Retire or isolate unsupported DPA 5.5 through 5.8 SP1 deployments..

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