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AA-2009.0089                  AUSCERT Advisory

                        [Win][Linux][Solaris][AIX]
                    IBM Lotus Domino: Denial of Service
                               15 April 2009
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        AusCERT Advisory Summary
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Product:              IBM Lotus Domino
Operating System:     AIX
                      Linux variants
                      Solaris
                      Windows
Impact:               Denial of Service
Access:               Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names:            CVE-2009-1286
Member content until: Wednesday, May 13 2009

OVERVIEW:

       IBM have released patches to correct a security vulnerability in 
       Lotus Domino.
       

IMPACT:

       The vendor has provided the following details regarding this 
       vulnerability:

       "In Lotus Domino 8.x, you will see the IMAP task crash your Domino 
       server in certain instances." [1]

       CVE-2009-1286 has been assigned to this vulnerability which is 
       described as:

       "The IMAP task in the server in IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.2 before FP1 IF1 
       and 8.5 before IF3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of 
       service (daemon crash) via a MIME e-mail message with RFC822 
       attachments (aka blobs) containing malformed root entities." [2]


MITIGATION:

       This vulnerability has been corrected in Domino 8.5 Interim Fix 3 
       and 8.0.2 before FP1 Interim Fix 1. Users can download these patches
       from IBM Fix Central. [3]


REFERENCES:

       [1] Lotus Domino 8.0.2FP1 Interim Fix 1 
           http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21379894

       [2] Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1286 
           http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-1286

       [3] IBM Support: Fix Central
           http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

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