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IBM Lotus Quickr Security Issue and Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA32098
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Release Date:
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2008-10-07
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Last Update:
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2008-10-14
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Popularity:
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891 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | IBM Lotus Quickr 8.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-4505
CVE-2008-4506
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Description:
A security issue and a vulnerability have been reported in IBM Lotus Quickr, which can be exploited by malicious users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges and potentially by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) An unspecified error in the processing of the OpenDocument command can be exploited to cause the server to crash via a specially crafted URL argument.
2) A security issues exists due to a place manager being able to delete a place superuser group.
The vulnerability and the security issue are reported in versions prior to 8.1.0.1.
Solution:
Update to version 8.1.0.1.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2008-10-09: Updated vulnerability #2 based on vendor information. Updated "Original Advisory" section.
2008-10-14: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
IBM (THES7BZM66, XFXF7HF5HB):
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27013341
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