A vulnerability has been identified in Novell GroupWise, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing overly long "mailto:" URIs, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into following a specially crafted link or opening a malicious HTML attachment [...]
Solution
The buffer overflow issue was fixed in Novell GroupWise 7 Support Pack 1 (SP1) and later.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian.
ChangeLog
2008-04-30 : Initial release
2008-05-05 : Updated Solution
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