Vulnerability Note VU#919369

Novell Netmail WebAdmin buffer overflow vulnerability

WebAdmin is a browser based administrative tool used to manage NetMail. WebAdmin (webadmin.exe) contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker may be able to trigger the overflow by sending an oversized username to the WebAdmin interface on a vulnerable system.

II. Impact

Novell has released NetMail 3.52e to address this issue.

Restrict access

Restricting access to port 89/tcp and 449/tcp to trusted hosts may mitigate this vulnerability.

Systems Affected

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=sMYRODW09pw
http://www.novell.com/products/netmail/
http://www.novell.com/documentation/netmail35/index.html?page=/documentation/netmail35/netmail35/data/bou06jd.html
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-009.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24445/
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-173.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22857
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017734

Credit

Thanks to the Zero Day Initiative for providing information about this vulnerability.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

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