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>> Novell eDirectory iMonitor Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Novell eDirectory iMonitor Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1403
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2551
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-08-12


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A vulnerability was identified in Novell eDirectory iMonitor, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to a stack overflow error when processing specially crafted GET requests, which may be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with SYSTEM privileges.



Affected Products

Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 for Windows 2000
Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 for Windows NT

Solution

Apply the patch :
http://support.novell.com/servlet/filedownload/sec/pub/edir873ptf_imon1.exe

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1403
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10098568.htm

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Peter Winter-Smith

ChangeLog

2005-08-12 : Initial release
2005-08-13 : Updated Advisory

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