Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Novell eDirectory, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Novell eDirectory LDAP Search Request Buffer Overflow
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31036
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31036/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
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) or
compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in calculating the size
of a heap buffer for storing LDAP search parameters. This can be
exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow with the string
"(null)" via NULL search parameters.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability affects version 8.8 and 8.7.3 on all platforms.
SOLUTION:
Apply 8.8.2 FTF2 or 8.7.3.10b.
http://download.novell.com/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by an anonymous researcher and reported via iDefense Labs.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Novell:
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3843876&sliceId=1
iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=724
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