Novell eDirectory SOAP Request Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability
ZDI-10-024: March 2nd, 2010CVE ID
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Affected Vendors
Affected Products
TippingPoint™ IPS Customer Protection
TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 8289. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:Vulnerability Details
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to deny services on vulnerable installations of Novell eDirectory Server. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
The specific flaw exists within the NDS daemon's SOAP service. When a malformed request is made to the novell.embox.connmgr.serverinfo SOAP action, the daemon makes an illegal reference thereby resulting in a denial of service.
Vendor Response
Novell has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:Disclosure Timeline
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2009-03-13 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-03-02 - Coordinated public release of advisory
Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by:-
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