full-disclosure - Re: [ISR] - Novell GroupWise Client Integer Overflow

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Message-ID: <20050927195141.GB42761@goku.cjclark.org>
Date: Tue Sep 27 20:51:56 2005
From: cristjc at comcast.net (Crist J. Clark)
Subject: Re: [ISR] - Novell GroupWise Client Integer
	Overflow

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:57:57AM -0300, Francisco Amato wrote:
[snip]

> .:: DESCRIPTION 
> 
> This issue is due to a failure of the application to securely parse the
> saved port number of the last authentication store in windows register. 
> 
> To reproduce this, we have to modify the default register key of
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Novell\GroupWise\Login Parameters\TCP/IP Port 

This is obviously a bug, but why is this a security vulnerability?
Does the GroupWise client run with elevated privileges?
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Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@...m.mit.edu