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Sid
14990

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in edirectory.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. Complete admin access.

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Detailed Information:
Heap-based buffer overflow in dhost.exe in Novell eDirectory 8.8 before 8.8.3, and 8.7.3 before 8.7.3.10 ftf1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SOAP request with a long Accept-Language header.

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Affected Systems:
novell edirectory 8.7.3
novell edirectory 8.7.3.10
novell edirectory 8.7.3.8
novell edirectory 8.7.3.8_presp9
novell edirectory 8.7.3.9
novell edirectory 8.7.3.9
novell edirectory 8.7.3.9
novell edirectory 8.7.3.9
novell edirectory 8.7.3.9
novell edirectory 8.8
novell edirectory 8.8
novell edirectory 8.8
novell edirectory 8.8
novell edirectory 8.8
novell edirectory 8.8.1
novell edirectory 8.8.1
novell edirectory 8.8.1
novell edirectory 8.8.1
novell edirectory 8.8.1
novell edirectory 8.8.2
novell edirectory 8.8.2
novell edirectory 8.8.2
novell edirectory 8.8.2
novell edirectory 8.8.2

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:


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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2008-4479:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2008-4479

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