Novell eDirectory SOAP Request Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability

March 2nd, 2010
ZDI-10-024 ZDI-CAN-440

CVE ID

CVE-2010-0666

CVSS Score

8.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Affected Vendors

Novell

Affected Products

eDirectory

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.

Additional Details

Novell has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7005341

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2009-03-13 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2010-03-02 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

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