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TITLE:
openwsman HTTP Basic Authentication Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31410

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31410/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
openwsman 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/18999/
openwsman 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/19594/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in openwsman, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or
potentially to compromise a vulnerable system.

A boundary error in openwsmand when decoding HTTP basic
authentication headers can be exploited to cause buffer overflows and
potentially to execute arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Restrict network access to the affected service.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the SuSE Security-Team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00003.html

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