cqure.net Security Vulnerability Report
No: cqure.net.20020412.netware_sdmr.a
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Vulnerability Summary
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Problem: The IPX compatibility issue Posted to BugTraq on
July 11, 2000 by Dimuthu Parussalla applies to
Netware 6.0 SP 1 as well.
Threat: An attacker could cause the SDMR.NLM to abend
and in some cases reboot the server. See bid
1467 for more information.
Affected Software: Novell Netware 6.0 SP 1.
Solution: Taken from Bugtraq bid 1467.
"IPX-Compatibility should not be enabled on
production servers."
Solution
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Disable IPX-Compatibility on production servers.
Additional Information
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Novell was contacted 20020412.
This vulnerability was found and researched by
Patrik Karlsson & Jonas Ländin
patrik.karlsson@se.pwcglobal.com
jonas.landin@ixsecurity.com
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