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Novell iPrint Server Queue Name Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-10-138: August 5th, 2010

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TippingPoint™ IPS Customer Protection

TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 8562. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Novell iPrint Server. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The flaw exists within the '/opt/novell/iprint/bin/ipsmd' component this component communicates with 'ilprsrvd' which listens on TCP port 515. When handling an LPR opcode 0x01 packet type the process blindly copies user supplied data into a fixed-length buffer on the stack. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the iprint user.

Vendor Response

Novell states:

To alleviate prior incomplete patch Novell released the following updates September 14, 2010.

Novell iPrint for OES2 SP2 20100730 (Architecture: x86)
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=LOFeoNQGkRc~

Novell iPrint for OES2 SP2 20100730 (Architecture: x86-64)
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=NEb-rQmxvpg~


Disclosure Timeline

    2010-07-20 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2010-08-05 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Francis Provencher for Protek Research Lab's