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TITLE:
openwsman "Content-Length" Processing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30568

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
openwsman 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/18999/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in openwsman, which can be
exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the processing of
"Content-Length" headers, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary
code with escalated privileges.

Successful exploitation requires valid openwsman user credentials.

This is related to vulnerability #3 in:
SA30556

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.5.2. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Alexander Sotirov, VMware Security Research

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
VMware:
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html

openwsman:
http://openwsman.org/trac/changeset/2810

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