Secunia Research: Lotus Notes UUE File Handling Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Research 10/02/2006
- Lotus Notes UUE File Handling Buffer Overflow -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Description of Vulnerability.........................................3
Solution.............................................................4
Time Table...........................................................5
Credits..............................................................6
References...........................................................7
About Secunia........................................................8
Verification.........................................................9
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1) Affected Software
* Lotus Notes 6.5.4
* Lotus Notes 7.0
Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Highly Critical
Impact: System access
Where: Remote
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3) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Lotus Notes, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in uudrdr.dll when
handling an UUE file containing an encoded file with an overly long
filename. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer
overflow.
Suucessful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a
malicious UUE file is opened in the Notes attachment viewer.
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4) Solution
Update to version 6.5.5 or 7.0.1.
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5) Time Table
05/08/2005 - Initial vendor notification.
05/08/2005 - Initial vendor response.
10/02/2006 - Public disclosure.
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6) Credits
Discovered by Tan Chew Keong, Secunia Research.
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7) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
candidate number CAN-2005-2618 for the vulnerability.
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9) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-36/advisory/
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