Novell NetStorage xsrvd Long Pathname Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
ZDI-10-021: February 23rd, 2010CVSS Score
Affected Vendors
Affected Products
TippingPoint™ IPS Customer Protection
TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 9290. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:Vulnerability Details
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Novell NetStorage. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
The specific flaws exists within the xsrvd process during the wide character conversion of requested file paths. In conjunction with a long username value the file path conversion will result in a heap overflow corrupting a chunk that will be immediately freed. This can be leveraged by remote attackers to compromise the NetStorage server.
Vendor Response
Novell has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:Disclosure Timeline
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2009-10-21 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-02-23 - Coordinated public release of advisory
Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by:-
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