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| A vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Novell Netware Groupwise SMTP daemon. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Credit:
The information has been provided by Nick DeBaggis.
The original article can be found at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-010
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The specific flaw exists during the parsing of malformed RCPT verb arguments to the SMTP daemon. When an overly long e-mail address is received an off-by-one condition is triggered which minimally will cause a denial of service and can result in arbitrary code execution.
Vendor Response:
Novell has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=GjZRRdqCFW0
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=HpEEW7aXWEY
Disclosure Timeline:
2008-08-26 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2009-02-02 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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