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● 01.30.09

●● Quick Mention: Novell Shares Mail with Crackers

Posted in Mail, Novell, Security at 7:09 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Novell’s proprietary mail systems are out of control again.

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Security researchers have identified two critical holes in Novell’s GroupWise WebAccess, the web front end for the company’s email and employee collaboration package, that allow malicious hackers to steal user messages with ease. All supported versions of the program are vulnerable.One vulnerability allows an attacker to forward all of a user’s email simply by sending a specially crafted email, according to Adrian Pastor, an employee for ProCheckUp, a penetration testing firm based in London. The cross-site request forgery bug allows attackers to add new forwarding rules simply by tricking a user into opening the email, no clicking of links necessary.

Is this what Novell might call “security through obscurity”? Either way, it’s a nasty little bug.

Speaking of GroupWise, GWAVACon 2009 has just ended and it received almost no coverage. █

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