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TITLE:
Novell eDirectory "Connection" HTTP Header Processing Denial of
Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29805

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29805/

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 an error within dhost.exe when
processing "Connection" headers in a  HTTP request. This can be
exploited to cause dhost.exe to consume large amounts of CPU resource
via e.g. sending multiple HTTP requests containing specially crafted
"Connection" headers.

The vulnerability affects the following versions on Windows 2000/2003
systems:
* Novell eDirectory 8.8.1 and prior
* Novell eDirectory 8.7.3.9 and prior

SOLUTION:
Update to version 8.8.2 or apply eDirectory 8.7.3 sp10.
http://download.novell.com/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Nicholas Gregorie.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Novell (3829452):
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3829452&sliceId=1

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