Advisory Details

August 6th, 2007

Novell Client NWSPOOL.DLL Stack Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-07-045
ZDI-CAN-146

CVE ID CVE-2007-2954
CVSS SCORE
AFFECTED VENDORS Novell
AFFECTED PRODUCTS eDirectory
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['5262', '5266']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on systems with vulnerable installations of the Novell Netware Client. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists in nwspool.dll which is responsible for handling RPC requests through the spoolss named pipe. Several RPC functions exposed by this DLL do not properly verify argument sizes and subsequently copy user-supplied data to a stack-based buffer resulting in an exploitable overflow.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS Novell has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5005400.html
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2007-02-16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2007-08-06 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT Anonymous
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