Advisory Details

November 8th, 2010

Novell GroupWise Internet Agent Content-Type String Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-10-238
ZDI-CAN-952

CVE ID
CVSS SCORE 10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS Novell
AFFECTED PRODUCTS Groupwise
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['10646']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS

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

The specific flaw exists within the gwia.exe module responsible for parsing e-mail messages received by the server. When the code encounters a Content-Type header it proceeds to parse out string data from within it. The process does not properly check the length of these values before copying them to a fixed-length buffer. This can be abused by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code under the context of the SYSTEM user.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Linux - http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=04oMMaiI9nI~
NetWare/Windows - http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=aq06Eoy7rf4~

The GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) has a vulnerability in the way that it parses string data within the "Content-Type" header of a received message, which could potentially allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of GWIA.
Affected versions: GroupWise 8.0x, 8.01x, 8.02. Previous versions of GroupWise are likely also vulnerable but are no longer supported. Customers on earlier versions of GroupWise should, at a minimum, upgrade their GWIAs and associated Domains to version 8.02HP in order to secure their system.
This vulnerability was discovered and reported by Anonymous working with TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (http://www.zerodayinitiative.com), ZDI-CAN-952
Novell bug 647757, CVE number pending
Related TID: http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?usemicrosite=true&searchString=7007153


DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2010-09-24 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2010-11-08 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT Anonymous
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