NetWare Remote Manager

Created 4/8/02

Impact

A remote attacker who is able to exploit this buffer overflow could cause the Remote Manager to crash or execute arbitrary code on the system.

Background

The NetWare Remote Manager is an SSL-enabled web interface for managing a NetWare server. It is implemented by the HTTPSTK.NLM module and listens on port 8009.

The Problem

A buffer overflow condition in the processing of basic HTTP authentication could allow a remote attacker to crash the service or execute arbitrary commands. Novell NetWare 5.1 up through support pack 3, and NetWare 6.0 up through support pack 1 are affected by this vulnerability.

Resolution

Follow the patch instructions provided by Novell.

Where can I read more about this?

This vulnerability was posted to Bugtraq.