Security Advisory SA8972 - Novell Netware HTTPSTK Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA8972

Novell Netware HTTPSTK Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA8972

Release Date

2003-06-09

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

DoS

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Operating System

Novell NetWare 6.x

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CVE Reference(s)

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Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Novell Netware 6, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the HTTP Stack, when handling specially crafted keep-alive packets.

Solution
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Provided and/or discovered by
Qualys Security Research Team

Original Advisory
http://support.novell.com/servlet/tidfinder/2966181

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