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Novell NSure Audit ASN.1 Message Parsing Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA15085
Release Date: 2005-04-25
Last Update: 2005-04-27
Popularity: 4,245 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Novell NSure Audit 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-1247


Description:
Dennis Rand has reported a vulnerability in Novell NSure Audit, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in webadmin.exe and can be exploited via some specially crafted ASN.1 messages sent to the service.

Successful exploitation causes the system to stop responding.

The vulnerability affects version 1.0.1.

Solution:
Update to version 1.0.2 or later.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Dennis Rand

Changelog:
2005-04-27: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
Novell:
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10097379.htm

Dennis Rand:
http://cirt.dk/advisories/cirt-31-advisory.pdf


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