Overview
The Sun iPlanet Web Server and Sun ONE Web Server both ship with a search engine that is not enabled by default. A remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in the search engine that could permit an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.
Description
The Sun iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition 4.1 and Sun ONE Web Server 6.0 ship with a search engine that contains a buffer overflow. The search engine is not enabled by default, but is a likely configuration option that would be enabled by the site administrator. If the search engine is enabled, then a remote attacker may be able to exploit the buffer overflow to execute arbitrary code on the system. |
Impact
If the search engine is enabled, then a remote attacker may be able to exploit the buffer overflow to execute arbitrary code on the system. |
Solution
Sun Microsystems has released the following service packs to address this issue: Sun iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition 4.1 (Service Pack 10): Sun ONE Web Server 6.0 (Service Pack 3): |
Disable the search engine. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
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References
Acknowledgements
The CERT/CC thanks NGSSoftware for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jason A Rafail.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2002-0686 |
| Severity Metric: | 57.71 |
| Date Public: | 2002-05-27 |
| Date First Published: | 2002-07-23 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2003-04-11 22:33 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 16 |