CVE-2010-4717

medium
Published 2011-01-31 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the IMAP server component in GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) in Novell GroupWise before 8.02HP allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) LIST or (2) LSUB command.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-15464 dos linux verified
Francis Provencher ยท 2010-11-09

Novell Groupwise Internet Agent - IMAP 'LIST LSUB' Remote Code Execution

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
suse novellgroupwise{"endIncluding":"8.0.2"}
suse novellgroupwise4.1
suse novellgroupwise4.1a
suse novellgroupwise5.0
suse novellgroupwise5.1
suse novellgroupwise5.2
suse novellgroupwise5.5
suse novellgroupwise5.57e
suse novellgroupwise6.0
suse novellgroupwise6.0.1
suse novellgroupwise6.5
suse novellgroupwise6.5.2
suse novellgroupwise6.5.3
suse novellgroupwise6.5.4
suse novellgroupwise6.5.6
suse novellgroupwise6.5.7
suse novellgroupwise7.0
suse novellgroupwise7.0.1
suse novellgroupwise7.0.2
suse novellgroupwise7.0.3
suse novellgroupwise7.0.4
suse novellgroupwise8.0
suse novellgroupwise8.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.