IRIX Netscape Directory Server contains multiple vulnerabilities

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                          SGI Security Advisory

        Title:   Netscape Directory Server contains multiple vulnerabilities
                 in LDAP handling code

        Number:  20011102-01-I
     Reference:  CERT® Advisory CA-2001-18
          Date:  November 26, 2001

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The CERT Coordination Center has reported that several products
including the Netscape / IPlanet Directory Server (version
4.1.4 or earlier) products contain multiple vulnerabilities in
the LDAP handling code.

In the encoding section of the PROTOS LDAPv3 test suite, these
products had an indeterminate number of failures in the group
that tests invalid BER length of length fields.

In the application section of the PROTOS LDAPv3 test suite,
these products failed four groups and had inconclusive results
for an additional five groups. The four failed groups indicate
the presence of buffer overflow vulnerabilities. For the
inconclusive groups, the product exhibited suspicious behavior
while testing for format string vulnerabilities.

Please read the CERT advisory and info on the PROTOS LDAPv3
test suite at:

http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c06/ldapv3/

SGI has investigated the issue and recommends the following steps for
neutralizing the exposure.  It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that these measures
be implemented on ALL vulnerable SGI systems.


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- --- Impact ---
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SGI sold IRIX Netscape Directory Server versions 1.0, 1.02, 3.0,
3.11, and 4.1.  All of those versions are subject to the
vulnerabilities outlined in this bulletin.  None of these
products are currently available from SGI, and all have been
retired and are no longer supported by SGI.

One or more of these vulnerabilities allow a remote attacker to
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Directory
Server. The server typically runs with root privileges. At
least one of these vulnerabilities has been successfully
exploited in a laboratory environment under Windows NT 4.0, but
they may affect other platforms as well.

A local user account on the vulnerable system is not required in order
to exploit these vulnerabilities.

CERT/CC reported the vulnerabilities:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-18.html

These vulnerabilities have been publicly discussed in Usenet
newsgroups and security mailing lists.


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These products have been retired, and SGI will not be providing
a patch for these vulnerabilities.  SGI's recommendation is to
uninstall the product.

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http://support.sgi.com/spk/

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http://support.sgi.com/news/support/index.html


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SGI wishes to thank the CERT Coordination Center, PROTOS team
from Finland, and the users of the Internet Community at large
for their assistance in this matter.


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