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CVE-2016-5762 (GCVE-0-2016-5762)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-20 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:15
VLAI
Summary
Integer overflow in the Post Office Agent in Novell GroupWise before 2014 R2 Service Pack 1 Hot Patch 1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) username or (2) password, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-08-23 00:00
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