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TITLE:
Novell NSure Audit ASN.1 Message Parsing Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15085

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15085/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Novell NSure Audit 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4974/

DESCRIPTION:
Dennis Rand has reported a vulnerability in Novell NSure Audit, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in
webadmin.exe and can be exploited via some specially crafted ASN.1
messages sent to the service.

Successful exploitation causes the system to stop responding.

The vulnerability affects version 1.0.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.2 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dennis Rand

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Novell:
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10097379.htm

Dennis Rand:
http://cirt.dk/advisories/cirt-31-advisory.pdf

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