CVE-2011-3827 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2011-3827?

CVE-2011-3827 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Novell Groupwise, published on 19 Sep 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The iCalendar component in gwwww1.dll in GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) in Novell GroupWise 8.0 before Support Pack 3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and daemon crash) via a crafted date-time string in a .ics attachment.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-3827?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Novell Groupwise.

How do I fix CVE-2011-3827?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-3827 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2011-3827 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-3827 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Novell Groupwise

• CVE-2014-0610 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2013-0804 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2012-0417 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2012-0271 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-0333 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Novell Groupwise vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-7cjc-4jhr-wqvc.