Vulnerability Note VU#919369

Overview

Novell NetMail contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Description

Novell NetMail is an email and messenging software package developed by Novell. It is designed to offer mail and calendaring services to large groups of users. 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.

Impact

A remote, unathenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Update 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 (Learn More)

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Novell, Inc.	Affected	-	08 Mar 2007

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CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

Group	Score	Vector
Base	N/A	N/A
Temporal	N/A	N/A
Environmental	N/A	N/A

References

• 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.

Other Information

• CVE IDs: CVE-2007-1350
• Date Public: 07 Mar 2007
• Date First Published: 08 Mar 2007
• Date Last Updated: 19 Mar 2007
• Severity Metric: 3.04
• Document Revision: 19