22455 : Novell Open Enterprise Server Remote Manager (novell-nrm) POST Request Content-Length Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
7	542	over 6 years ago	about 1 year ago	2 times	100%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date
2005-11-15	2005-11-15	2005-11-15	2006-01-13

Keywords

TID1af470a99a736eb966cc0e52fb71ee98, patch-10763

Description

A remote overflow exists in Novell Remote Manager. The product fails to handle HTTP POST requests with a negative Content-Length paramater resulting in a heap overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can cause execution of arbitrary code resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to novell-nrm version 1.3-8 and novell-nrm-welcome version 3.0-1 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Novell, Inc.	SuSE Linux Enterprise Server	9
Novell, Inc.	Novell Open Enterprise Server	9

References

Security Tracker: 1015487
Bugtraq ID: 16226
Secunia Advisory ID: 18484
SCIP VulDB ID: 1982
CVE ID: 2005-3655 (see also: NVD)
ISS X-Force ID: 24111
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0471.html
Vendor Specific Solution URL: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=hH7c5pVySqI~
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jan/0002.html
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?psdb/1af470a99a736eb966cc0e52fb71ee98.html
Other Advisory URL: http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=371
Keyword: TID1af470a99a736eb966cc0e52fb71ee98,patch-10763

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Credit

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