On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:57:57AM -0300, Francisco Amato wrote:
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> .:: DESCRIPTION
>
> This issue is due to a failure of the application to securely parse the
> saved port number of the last authentication store in windows register.
>
> To reproduce this, we have to modify the default register key of
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Novell\GroupWise\Login Parameters\TCP/IP Port
This is obviously a bug, but why is this a security vulnerability?
Does the GroupWise client run with elevated privileges?
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Crist J. Clark | cjclark (at) alum.mit (dot) edu [email concealed]
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> .:: DESCRIPTION
>
> This issue is due to a failure of the application to securely parse the
> saved port number of the last authentication store in windows register.
>
> To reproduce this, we have to modify the default register key of
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Novell\GroupWise\Login Parameters\TCP/IP Port
This is obviously a bug, but why is this a security vulnerability?
Does the GroupWise client run with elevated privileges?
--
Crist J. Clark | cjclark (at) alum.mit (dot) edu [email concealed]
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