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CVE-2005-2852
published 2005-09-08

CVE-2005-2852: Unknown vulnerability in CIFS.NLM in Novell Netware 6.5 SP2 and SP3, 5.1, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ABEND) via an incorrect…

PriorityP432medium5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCNINAP
EXPLOIT
EPSS
40.26%
98.5th percentile
Unknown vulnerability in CIFS.NLM in Novell Netware 6.5 SP2 and SP3, 5.1, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ABEND) via an incorrect password length, as exploited by the "worm.rbot.ccc" worm.

Affected

3 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
novellnetware
novellnetware
novellnetware

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

other0xb2329b98
other0xb234a268
other0xbabc286c
other0xbabc9c3c
other0x823c835c
other0x823c83fc
other12345778-1234-abcd-ef00-0123456789ab
path\lsarpc
commanddcerpc.call(0x2c, stb)
  • Detect exploitation attempts by monitoring for SMB named pipe connections to \lsarpc combined with DCE/RPC opcode 0x0E (LsarLookupNames) carrying an oversized Unicode string (~0xa0+ bytes) on NetWare CIFS targets.
  • The exploit sends a malformed password length field via CIFS; monitor for ABEND (abnormal end) events on Novell NetWare CIFS.NLM, which is the primary DoS/crash indicator for both the worm and exploit.
  • The exploit disables DCE/RPC multi-bind (DCERPC::fake_bind_multi = false) before binding to the LSARPC interface; this non-standard bind sequence over SMB to NetWare hosts can be used as a detection signal.
  • The ROP return addresses in libc.nlm (e.g. 0xb2329b98, 0xb234a268, 0xbabc286c, 0xbabc9c3c, 0x823c835c, 0x823c83fc) are version-specific 'push esp; ret' gadgets; presence of these 4-byte little-endian values in SMB/DCE-RPC payloads targeting NetWare is a strong exploit indicator.
  • NetWare SP version can be fingerprinted via SNMP (e.g. 5.70.07 = NetWare 6.5 SP7); correlate SNMP version strings with inbound SMB exploit attempts to identify targeted SP-specific return addresses.
  • ·The exploit targets the kernel-space CIFS.NLM driver; a failed exploit attempt will cause the OS to reboot, making testing against production systems extremely risky.
  • ·Payload space is constrained to 400 bytes and null bytes (0x00) are bad characters, limiting shellcode options.
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