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Lotus Domino Web Retriever contains a buffer overflow vulnerability

Vulnerability Note VU#411489

Original Release Date: 2003-03-13 | Last Revised: 2003-03-18

Overview

A buffer overflow vulnerability may be exploited via the Lotus Domino Web Retriever. Versions prior to 5.0.12 and 6.0 are affected.

Description

According to the Rapid7 Advisory:

The Lotus Notes/Domino Web Retriever task is responsible for retrieving web pages on behalf of Notes users who want to access the web via their Notes server.

The Web Retriever program will crash when it receives an overly long HTTP status line from a remote web server.

If the Web Retriever is running as a server task, the crash will cause a denial of service on the server.

If the Web Retriever is running locally on a client, the crash will bring down the Notes client with it.

Impact

This vulnerability may be used to cause a denial of service.

Solution

Lotus has published a support document for this issue. Upgrade to version 5.0.12 or 6.0 Gold or 6.0.1.

In their support document, Lotus recommends disabling the WEB task on the server as a workaround. This task is not enabled by default.

Vendor Information

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Lotus Affected

Updated:  March 13, 2003

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

Please see http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&uid=swg21105060

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us email.


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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Rapid7, Inc. Security Advisories and Lotus for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Jason A Rafail based on information provided by Rapid7, Inc. and Lotus.

Other Information

CVE IDs: None
Severity Metric: 12.66
Date Public: 2003-03-06
Date First Published: 2003-03-13
Date Last Updated: 2003-03-18 15:54 UTC
Document Revision: 17

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