ZDI-11-046: IBM Lotus Domino Calendar Request Attachment Name Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-11-046: IBM Lotus Domino Calendar Request Attachment Name Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-046

February 7, 2011 - This vulnerability is being disclosed publicly without a patch in accordance with the ZDI 180 day deadline. To view mitigations for this
vulnerability please see: http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-ibm

– CVSS:
10, (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

– Affected Vendors:
IBM

– Affected Products:
IBM Lotus Domino

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TippingPoint IPS customers have been protected against this
vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 6444.
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– Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on
systems with vulnerable installations of IBM Lotus Domino.
Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the NRouter service while transporting
malformed e-mails. The vulnerable code copies data from the ATTACH:CID
and Content-ID headers within an e-mail into a fixed length stack
buffer. By providing a large enough file name, this buffer can overflow
leading to arbitrary code execution under the context of the SYSTEM
user.

– Disclosure Timeline:
2008-08-26 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2011-02-07 - Public release of advisory

– Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by:
* Anonymous

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