(0Day) IBM Lotus Domino LDAP Bind Request Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

February 7th, 2011
ZDI-11-047 ZDI-CAN-779

CVE ID

CVE-2011-0917

CVSS Score

10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Vendors

IBM

Affected Products

Lotus Domino

Vulnerability Details

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

The flaw exists within the nLDAP.exe component which listens by default on TCP port 389. When handling the an LDAP Bind Request packet the process blindly copies user supplied data into an undersized shared memory buffer. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the SYSTEM user.

Additional Details

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21461514


Disclosure Timeline

  • 2010-07-20 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2011-02-07 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Francis Provencher for Protek Researchh Lab's

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