Novell GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) - Security Vulnerability in Email Address Processing

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Environment

GroupWise Internet Agent
GroupWise 7.0 up to (and including) 7.03 HP2
GroupWise 8.0 up to (and including) 8.0.0 HP1

Situation

A vulnerability exists in the Novell GroupWise Internet Agent, in the way it processes email addresses in the SMTP protocol. Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges.

This vulnerability was discovered and reported by Nicolas Joly - VUPEN Security (http://www.vupen.com / VUPEN-SR-2009-002).

Novell bug 482914, CVE-2009-1636.

Resolution

To resolve this issue:
For GroupWise 7.x systems, apply GroupWise 7.03 Hot Patch 3 (HP3) or later
For GroupWise 8.0 systems, apply GroupWise 8.0 Hot Patch 2 (HP2) or later

Status

Diagnostic Pattern Available through Novell Support Advisor
Security Alert

Bug Number

482914

Have you tried resolving this issue using Novell Support Advisor? Visit http://support.novell.com/advisor/ to learn more.

Document

Document ID:	7003273
Creation Date:	05-14-2009
Modified Date:	09-30-2009
Novell Product:	GroupWise

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