Security Vulnerability - GroupWise 8 Windows Client Address Book Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

  • 7010205
  • 23-Feb-2012
  • 28-Jun-2012

Environment

Novell GroupWise 8
Novell GroupWise 8 Client for Windows
Affected versions: GroupWise 8.0x up to (and including) 8.02HP3

Situation

The GroupWise 8 Client for Windows is vulnerable to an exploit where a malformed address book could cause heap memory corruption, which could lead to remote code execution under the privilege of the user that opened the address book.

This vulnerability was discovered and reported by Francis Provencher of Protek Research Lab (protekresearchlab.com)

Novell bug 733885, CVE-2011-4189

Resolution

To resolve this issue, apply GroupWise 8.0 Support Pack 3 (or later) client for Windows.
 
GroupWise 2012 is not affected by this vulnerability.

Previous versions of GroupWise (such as version 7.x) are likely also vulnerable but are no longer supported. Customers using earlier versions of GroupWise should upgrade their software to at least version 8.03 in order to secure their system.

Status

Security Alert

Bug Number

733885