Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Novell NetWare, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the NFS mount daemon (XNFS.NLM) and can be exploited to cause an abend via a mount request containing an overly long mount path (more than 508 characters).
The vulnerability is reported in NetWare 6.5 SP6. Other versions may also be affected.
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