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Secunia Advisory SA21496

Novell eDirectory Denial of Service and Password Exposure
Secunia Advisory SA21496
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2006-08-14
Last Update 2006-08-18
   
Popularity 10,279 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
Where From local network
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Software:
Novell eDirectory 8.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-4185 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-4186 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

A vulnerability and a security issue have been reported in Novell eDirectory, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An unspecified error may exhaust CPU resources during a Nessus scan.

2) The eMBoxClient.jar iManager prints user passwords in a log file.

NOTE: Other issues, where some may be security related, have also been reported.


Solution
Apply patch (for eDirectory 8.7.3.8 for the Linux, Solaris, AIX, and HPUX platforms):
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Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2973826.htm

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