Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Novell iManager, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Novell iManager Tomcat Denial Of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22657
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22657/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Novell iManager 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3507/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Novell iManager, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of HTTP POST
requests. This can be exploited to crash the service via a specially
crafted HTTP request with an overly long TREE parameter (more than
256 bytes).
The vulnerability is reported in Novell iManager 2.5. Prior versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.6.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
cirt.dk
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=436
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