exploit the possibilities
Home Files News &[SERVICES_TAB]About Contact Add New

secunia-LotusTraverse.txt

secunia-LotusTraverse.txt
Posted Feb 13, 2006
Authored by Carsten Eiram, Tan Chew Keong | Site secunia.com

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Lotus Notes, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerability is caused due to directory traversal errors in kvarcve.dll when generating the preview of a compressed file from ZIP, UUE and TAR archives. This can be exploited to delete arbitrary files that are accessible to the Notes user. Affected versions are Lotus Notes 6.5.4 and Lotus Notes 7.0.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, file inclusion
advisories | CVE-2005-2619
SHA-256 | a9bc2a3a0141f79688e6b766ca98f395753401a2d0e8795deb887ac34da40f1f

secunia-LotusTraverse.txt

Change Mirror Download
====================================================================== 

Secunia Research 10/02/2006

- Lotus Notes Multiple Archive Handling Directory Traversal -

======================================================================
Table of Contents

Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Description of Vulnerability.........................................3
Solution.............................................................4
Time Table...........................................................5
Credits..............................................................6
References...........................................................7
About Secunia........................................................8
Verification.........................................................9

======================================================================
1) Affected Software

* Lotus Notes 6.5.4
* Lotus Notes 7.0

Other versions may also be affected.

======================================================================
2) Severity

Rating: Moderately Critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: Remote

======================================================================
3) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Lotus Notes, which
can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to directory traversal errors in
kvarcve.dll when generating the preview of a compressed file from
ZIP, UUE and TAR archives. This can be exploited to delete arbitrary
files that are accessible to the Notes user.

Successful exploitation requires that the user is e.g. tricked into
previewing a compressed file with directory traversal sequences in
its filename from within the Notes attachment viewer.

======================================================================
4) Solution

Update to version 6.5.5 or 7.0.1.

======================================================================
5) Time Table

04/08/2005 - Initial vendor notification.
04/08/2005 - Initial vendor response.
10/02/2006 - Public disclosure.

======================================================================
6) Credits

Discovered by Tan Chew Keong and Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

======================================================================
7) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
candidate number CAN-2005-2619 for the vulnerability.

======================================================================
8) About Secunia

Secunia collects, validates, assesses, and writes advisories regarding
all the latest software vulnerabilities disclosed to the public. These
advisories are gathered in a publicly available database at the
Secunia website:

http://secunia.com/

Secunia offers services to our customers enabling them to receive all
relevant vulnerability information to their specific system
configuration.

Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories:

http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

======================================================================
9) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-30/advisory/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

======================================================================



Login or Register to add favorites

File Archive:

March 2024

  • Su
  • Mo
  • Tu
  • We
  • Th
  • Fr
  • Sa
  • 1
    Mar 1st
    16 Files
  • 2
    Mar 2nd
    0 Files
  • 3
    Mar 3rd
    0 Files
  • 4
    Mar 4th
    32 Files
  • 5
    Mar 5th
    28 Files
  • 6
    Mar 6th
    42 Files
  • 7
    Mar 7th
    17 Files
  • 8
    Mar 8th
    13 Files
  • 9
    Mar 9th
    0 Files
  • 10
    Mar 10th
    0 Files
  • 11
    Mar 11th
    15 Files
  • 12
    Mar 12th
    19 Files
  • 13
    Mar 13th
    21 Files
  • 14
    Mar 14th
    38 Files
  • 15
    Mar 15th
    15 Files
  • 16
    Mar 16th
    0 Files
  • 17
    Mar 17th
    0 Files
  • 18
    Mar 18th
    10 Files
  • 19
    Mar 19th
    32 Files
  • 20
    Mar 20th
    46 Files
  • 21
    Mar 21st
    16 Files
  • 22
    Mar 22nd
    13 Files
  • 23
    Mar 23rd
    0 Files
  • 24
    Mar 24th
    0 Files
  • 25
    Mar 25th
    12 Files
  • 26
    Mar 26th
    31 Files
  • 27
    Mar 27th
    19 Files
  • 28
    Mar 28th
    42 Files
  • 29
    Mar 29th
    0 Files
  • 30
    Mar 30th
    0 Files
  • 31
    Mar 31st
    0 Files

Top Authors In Last 30 Days

File Tags

Systems

packet storm

© 2022 Packet Storm. All rights reserved.

Services
Security Services
Hosting By
Rokasec
close