Fortinet Discovers IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Server Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a remote denial of service vulnerability in IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Server.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

IBM.Lotus.Domino.Remote.DoS
Released Dec 21, 2011
Users should patch/apply IBM's new hotfix.

Additional Information

The vulnerability occurs while IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Server handles malformed TCP packet. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause the server to crash immediately.

Acknowledgement

Xiaopeng Zhang of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

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