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Novell BorderManager Port 2000 Telnet DoS
medium Nessus Plugin ID 10163
Synopsis
The remote service is vulnerable to a denial of service.Description
The port 2000 is open, and Novell BorderManager*might* be listening on it.
There is a denial of service attack that allows an intruder to make a Novell BorderManager 3.5 slowly die.
If you see an error message on this computer telling you 'Short Term Memory Allocator is out of Memory' then you are vulnerable to this attack.
An attacker may use this flaw to prevent this service from doing its job and to prevent the user of this station to work on it.
*** If there is no error message whatsoever on this
*** computer, then this is likely a false positive.
Solution
Contact Novell and ask for a patch or filter incoming TCP connections to port 2000.Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 10163
File Name: novell_border_manager.nasl
Version: 1.21
Type: remote
Family: Firewalls
Published: 2/9/2000
Updated: 7/16/2018
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:novell:bordermanager
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 2/17/2000
Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/4/2000
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2000-0152