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TITLE:
Novell eDirectory NMAS Denial Of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22660

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22660/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Novell eDirectory 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/1120/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Novell eDirectory, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a pointer handling error within
the "BerDecodeLoginDataRequest()" function in the libnmasldap.so
module. This can be exploited to crash the process via a specially
crafted login request.

The vulnerability is reported in Novell eDirectory versions 8.8 and
8.8.1. Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.3 of Security Services.
http://download.novell.com/index.jsp

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by an anonymous person and reported by iDefense Labs.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=437

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