Check Point Advisories

Preemptive Protection against Novell GroupWise Internet Agent RRULE Weekday Parsing Buffer Overflow (CVE-2011-2662)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2011-563
Date Published: 6 Dec 2011
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Saturday 01 January, 2011
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Industry Reference:CVE-2011-2662
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Who is Vulnerable? Novell Groupwise prior to 8.02 HP3
Vulnerability Description A remote code injection and execution vulnerability has been reported in Novell GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA).
Vulnerability DetailsThe vulnerability is due to a boundary error in the Novell GroupWise Internet Agent while parsing an RRULE variable of a VCALENDAR inside an email message. A remote attacker could exploit this issue by sending a malicious email to the target server. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in arbitrary code injection and execution on an affected system.

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