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>> Novell Client "EnumPrinters" Function Remote Stack Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Novell Client "EnumPrinters" Function Remote Stack Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0496
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0639
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-02-12


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A vulnerability has been identified in Novell Client for Windows, 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 logical error in the "EnumPrinters" (nwspool.dll) function when processing user-supplied requests, which could be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges.

Affected Products

Novell Client version 4.91 SP2 for Windows 2000/XP/2003
Novell Client version 4.91 SP3 for Windows XP/2003
Novell Client version 4.91 SP4 for Windows XP/2003

Solution

Apply patch :
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=Ui5qNQgEmHE~

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0496
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-005.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Avosani Gabriele and ZDI.

ChangeLog

2008-02-12 : Initial release

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