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TITLE:
Lotus Domino Web Service Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14858

VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/14858/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Lotus Domino R6
https://secunia.com/product/720/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Lotus Domino, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "NLSCCSTR.DLL"
module when processing certain HTTP requests for the "cgi-bin/"
directory. This can be exploited to cause a stack overflow via a
specially crafted HTTP GET request containing a long string of
certain UNICODE characters.

Successful exploitation may crash the "nHTTP.exe" process.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 6.5.1 and 6.0.3.
Other versions may also be affected. However, the vendor reports that
the vulnerability could not be reproduced on any systems.

SOLUTION:
According to iDEFENSE, the vulnerability does not affect version
6.5.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by anonymous person and reported via iDEFENSE.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
IBM:
https://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21202446

iDEFENSE:
https://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=224&type=vulnerabilities

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