Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in IBM Lotus Notes, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the File Viewer for WordPerfect module when processing a specially crafted file attachment, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected server or execute arbitrary code.

Affected Products

IBM Lotus Notes versions 5.x
IBM Lotus Notes versions 6.x
IBM Lotus Notes versions 7.0.x
IBM Lotus Notes versions 8.0.x

Solution

Contact IBM Support to obtain a patch for IBM Notes 7.x and 8.x.

The vendor recommends disabling the viewer for Notes 6.x and 5.x.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0757
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21377573
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=774

Credits

Vulnerability reported by iDefense.

ChangeLog

2009-03-18 : Initial release

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