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>> Novell GroupWise "mailto:" URI Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Novell GroupWise "mailto:" URI Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1393
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2069
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-30
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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 when processing overly long "mailto:" URIs, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into following a specially crafted link or opening a malicious HTML attachment.
A cross site scripting issue has also been reported in the handling of image file attachments (e.g. JPG).
Affected Products
Novell GroupWise version 7.0 and prior
Solution
The buffer overflow issue was fixed in Novell GroupWise 7 Support Pack 1 (SP1) and later.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1393
http://support.novell.com/Platform/Publishing/291/7000314_f.1.html
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian.
ChangeLog
2008-04-30 : Initial release
2008-05-05 : Updated Solution
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