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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5038
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CVE-2008-5038

Description:
Use-after-free vulnerability in the NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) feature in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 SP10 before 8.7.3 SP10 FTF1 and 8.8 SP2 for Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a sequence of "Get NCP Extension Information By Name" requests that cause one thread to operate on memory after it has been freed in another thread, which triggers memory corruption, aka Novell Bug 373852.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46138

ST
  1021117

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA32395

OSVDB
  48206

IDEFENSE
  http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=748

CONFIRM
  http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981
  http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037181.html
  http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037180.html

BID
  31956


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