full-disclosure - NOVL-2005010098073 GroupWise Password Caching

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Date: Thu Aug 25 17:21:50 2005
From: atarasco at gmail.com (Andres Tarasco)
Subject: NOVL-2005010098073 GroupWise Password Caching

"A hostile user with administrative access to the machine where a user
is logged in may dump memory and find username/password pairs of
logged in users."

WTF!!. An hostile user with Administrative access to your box could also 
delete your box or dump all your naked photos and publish it.

be careful :)



On 8/25/05, Ed Reed <ereed@...ell.com> wrote:
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> For Immediate Disclosure
> 
> ============================== Summary ==============================
> 
> Security Alert: NOVL-2005-10098073
> Title: GroupWise Password Caching
> Date: 16-August-2005
> Revision: Original
> Product Name: GroupWise 5.x, 6.x
> OS/Platform(s): Windows and NetWare
> Reference URL: http://support.novell.com/servlet/tidfinder/10098073
> Vendor Name: Novell, Inc.
> Vendor URL: http://www.novell.com
> Security Alerts: http://support.novell.com/security-alerts
> Affects: GroupWise Windows Clients & Proxies
> Identifiers: Bugtraq:13997, CVE:CAN-2005-2620, SECTRACK:1014247
> Credits: securityteam@...edson.com
> 
> ============================ Description ============================
> 
> The GroupWise client sometimes caches the user name and password in
> memory while it is running.
> 
> ============================== Impact ===============================
> 
> A hostile user with administrative access to the machine where a user
> is logged in may dump memory and find username/password pairs of
> logged in users.
> 
> ======================== Recommended Actions ========================
> GW 7 was released with these fixes already applied, so no further
> action is required for GroupWise 7 users.
> 
> Until the official release of GroupWise 6.5 SP5 in mid-September,
> customers wishing to apply Field Test Files (FTF) can download these
> from http://support.novell.com/filefinder/ and locate the latest
> GroupWise Agents and GroupWise Client FTFs. Currently as of
> August 16, 2005 the filenames are fgw655h.exe for Agents and
> f32655f7e.exe for GW Client. Both, FTFs will need to be applied
> to get the full fix.
> 
> See detailed instructions in the referenced Technical Information
> Document (TID): http://support.novell.com/servlet/tidfinder/10098073
> 
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> ========================= Revision History ==========================
> Original: 16-Aug-2005 - Original Publication
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