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>> Novell GroupWise "SRC" Parameter Remote Stack Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Novell GroupWise "SRC" Parameter Remote Stack Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-4273
CVE ID : CVE-2007-6435
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-12-20
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A vulnerability has been identified in Novell GroupWise, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in when parsing an email message containing an "IMG" tag with an overly long "SRC" parameter, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into forwarding or replying to a specially crafted HTML message.
Affected Products
Novell GroupWise version 6.5.6 and prior
Solution
Upgrade to Novell GroupWise version 6.5.7 :
http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?sourceidint=hdr_download
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4273
http://www.infobyte.com.ar/adv/ISR-16.html
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Francisco Amato.
ChangeLog
2007-12-20 : Initial release
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