Title: iPlanet Web Publisher Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
iPlanet Webserver is an http server product offered by the Sun-Netscape Alliance.
By sending a specially crafted request composed of approximately 4022 bytes as the URI or Method, it is possible to cause a buffer overflow. This could result in the termination of the affected service, requiring a restart and enabling a remote attacker to effect a denial of service attack.
If the submitted buffer is properly structured, it may yield a remote system shell to the attacker. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a remote user gaining access to the system as the UID of the web server process.
Note that while only installations of iWS4.1sp3-7 on Windows NT are immediately vulnerable to this attack, all users of iWS4.1sp3-7 are advised to install the NSAPI.
Affected Products:
- HP HP-UX (VVOS) 11.0.0 4
- HP HP-UX 11.0.0 4
- HP VirtualVault 4.0.0
- iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions iPlanet Web Server 4.0.0
- iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition 4.1.0 SP3
- iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition 4.1.0 SP4
- iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition 4.1.0 SP5
- iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition 4.1.0 SP6
- iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition 4.1.0 SP7
References:
- iPlanet: iPlanet Web Server Product Alert
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