FrSIRT - Novell eDirectory ds.dlm Module Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Novell eDirectory ds.dlm Module Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Novell eDirectory ds.dlm Module Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1999
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3159
CWE ID : CWE-189
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-07-04

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Novell eDirectory, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error in the "ds.dlm" module when processing psecially crafted requests sent to port 524/TCP, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code.

Various other issues that could cause the application to crash have been reported.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Sebastian Apelt via ZDI.

ChangeLog

2008-07-04 : Initial release

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