CVE-2008-5038 Information

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) feature in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 SP10 before 8.7.3 SP10 FTF1 and 8.8 SP2 for Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a sequence of \Get NCP Extension Information By Name\ requests that cause one thread to operate on memory after it has been freed in another thread which triggers memory corruption aka Novell Bug 373852.

Reference

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=748 http://osvdb.org/48206 http://secunia.com/advisories/32395 http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037180.html http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037181.html http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31956 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021117 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2937 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46138