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NaviCOPA Web Server fails to properly handle certain HTTP requests

Vulnerability Note VU#693992

Original Release Date: 2006-11-21 | Last Revised: 2007-03-28

Overview

A vulnerability exists in the NaviCOPA Web Server. If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Description

NaviCOPA Web Server is an HTTP server that is available for multiple versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, and Vista.

There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in the NaviCOPA Web Server. An attacker may be able to trigger the overflow by sending an specially crafted HTTP request to a vulnerable system.

Impact

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

Solution

Upgrade
NaviCOPA V2.01 has been released to address this issue.


Restrict Access

Restricting network access to a vulnerable HTTP server to trusted hosts may mitigate the effects of this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

693992
 

Intervations, Inc. Affected

Updated:  November 20, 2006

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

This issue is not present in the current release version of NaviCOPA available from http://www.navicopa.com/download.html.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.


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References

Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was reported by h07.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

CVE IDs: CVE-2006-5112
Severity Metric: 7.70
Date Public: 2006-09-28
Date First Published: 2006-11-21
Date Last Updated: 2007-03-28 18:40 UTC
Document Revision: 29

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