Environment
Novell GroupWise 8
Novell GroupWise 8 Client for Windows
Affected versions: GroupWise 8.0x up to (and including) 8.02HP3
Novell GroupWise 8 Client for Windows
Affected versions: GroupWise 8.0x up to (and including) 8.02HP3
Situation
The GroupWise 8 Client for Windows is vulnerable to an exploit where a malformed address book could cause heap memory corruption, which could lead to remote code execution under the privilege of the user that opened the address book.
This vulnerability was discovered and reported by Francis Provencher of Protek Research Lab (protekresearchlab.com)
Novell bug 733885, CVE-2011-4189
This vulnerability was discovered and reported by Francis Provencher of Protek Research Lab (protekresearchlab.com)
Novell bug 733885, CVE-2011-4189
Resolution
To resolve this issue, apply GroupWise 8.0 Support Pack 3 (or later) client for Windows.
GroupWise 2012 is not affected by this vulnerability.
Previous versions of GroupWise (such as version 7.x) are likely also vulnerable but are no longer supported. Customers using earlier versions of GroupWise should upgrade their software to at least version 8.03 in order to secure their system.
GroupWise 2012 is not affected by this vulnerability.
Previous versions of GroupWise (such as version 7.x) are likely also vulnerable but are no longer supported. Customers using earlier versions of GroupWise should upgrade their software to at least version 8.03 in order to secure their system.
Status
Security AlertBug Number
733885