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TITLE:
Novell eDirectory MS-DOS Device Name Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15676

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15676/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Novell eDirectory 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/1120/

DESCRIPTION:
Dennis Rand has reported a vulnerability in Novell eDirectory, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error
when handling HTTP requests for reserved MS-DOS device names and can
be exploited to crash the NDS service.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 8.7.3 for Windows.
Prior versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has reportedly been fixed in the current interm
release of eDirectory 8.7.3.
http://support.novell.com/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dennis Rand

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Cirt.dk:
http://cirt.dk/advisories/cirt-33-advisory.pdf

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