CVE-2010-0317 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Novell NetWare 6.5 SP8, specifically affecting its CIFS and AFP functionalities. Remote attackers can trigger a NULL pointer dereference, memory consumption, and system crash (ABEND) by sending a large volume of malformed or improperly handled requests. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a critical impact due to complete system availability loss, and requires no authentication or complex attack methods. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:novell:netware:6.5:sp8:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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