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Novell NetWare CIFS Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:	SA16640
Release Date:	2005-08-31
Last Update:	2005-09-27

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

OS:	Novell Netware 5.x Novell NetWare 6.x


CVE reference:	CVE-2005-2852 (Secunia mirror)

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Description: A vulnerability has been reported in NetWare, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in CIFS.NLM when handling password lengths and can be exploited to cause crash the service. The vulnerability has been reported in NetWare 5.1, 6.0, 6.5 SP2 and 6.5 SP3. NOTE: The "worm_rbot.ccc" worm, which exploits a Windows vulnerability, may reportedly trigger this vulnerability. Solution: Apply CIFS update. NetWare 6.5 SP2: http://support.novell.com/servlet/filedownload/sec/pub/65cifs22nss2b.exe NetWare 6.5 SP3: http://support.novell.com/servlet/filedownload/sec/pub/65cifs22a.exe NetWare 5.1 (requires SP4 or later) / NetWare 6.0 (requires SP1 or later): http://support.novell.com/servlet/filedownload/sec/pub/cifspt9.exe Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by vendor. Changelog: 2005-09-27: Added CVE reference. Original Advisory: Novell: http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2971832.htm http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2971821.htm http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2971822.htm



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