IBM Lotus Notes up to 6.4 notes.ini memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in IBM Lotus Notes up to 6.4 (Groupware Software). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown functionality of the file notes.ini. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in the Lotus Notes client for Domino 6.5 before 6.5.4 and 6.0 before 6.0.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (client crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the NOTES.INI file.

The weakness was disclosed 04/06/2005 by Ollie Whitehouse with Symantec (Website). The advisory is available at www-1.ibm.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2005-1442 since 05/03/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

By approaching the search of inurl:notes.ini it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 6.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (20044). The entries 1340, 1342, 1343 and 1341 are pretty similar.

Productinfo

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Groupware Software

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Lotus Notes

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License

commercial

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Lotus Notes 6.5

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04/06/2005 🔍
04/08/2005 +1 days 🔍
04/08/2005 +0 days 🔍
04/29/2005 +20 days 🔍
05/03/2005 +4 days 🔍
05/03/2005 +0 days 🔍
11/13/2012 +2751 days 🔍
03/11/2015 +848 days 🔍
04/21/2017 +772 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: ibm.com

Advisory: www-1.ibm.com
Researcher: Ollie Whitehouse
Organization: Symantec
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2005-1442 (🔍)
X-Force: 20044
Vulnerability Center: 37181 - Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino Local Denial of Service and Arbitrary Code Execution via NOTES.INI, Medium
SecurityFocus: 13447 - IBM Lotus Notes Local NOTES.INI Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 14879
OSVDB: 15367 - IBM Lotus Notes Client NOTES.INI Processing Local Overflow

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 04/21/2017 11:04
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (61), 04/21/2017 11:04 (7)
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