ZDI-10-238: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent Content-Type String Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-238

November 8, 2010

-- CVSS:
10, (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

-- Affected Vendors:
Novell

-- Affected Products:
Novell Groupwise

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-- Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable installations of Novell GroupWise. Authentication is not
required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the gwia.exe module responsible for
parsing e-mail messages received by the server. When the code encounters
a Content-Type header it proceeds to parse out string data from within
it. The process does not properly check the length of these values
before copying them to a fixed-length buffer. This can be abused by a
remote attacker to execute arbitrary code under the context of the
SYSTEM user.

-- Vendor Response:
Novell states:
Linux - http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=04oMMaiI9nI~
NetWare/Windows -
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=aq06Eoy7rf4~

The GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) has a vulnerability in the way that
it parses string data within the "Content-Type" header of a received
message, which could potentially allow an unauthenticated remote
attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of GWIA.

Affected versions: GroupWise 8.0x, 8.01x, 8.02. Previous versions of
GroupWise are likely also vulnerable but are no longer supported.
Customers on earlier versions of GroupWise should, at a minimum, upgrade
their GWIAs and associated Domains to version 8.02HP in order to secure
their system.
This vulnerability was discovered and reported by Anonymous working with
TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (http://www.zerodayinitiative.com),
ZDI-CAN-952
Novell bug 647757, CVE number pending
Related TID:
http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?usemicrosite=true&searchString=7007153

-- Disclosure Timeline:
2010-09-24 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-11-08 - Coordinated public release of advisory

-- Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by:
    * Anonymous

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