CVE-2010-0317
Novell Netware 6.5 SP8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, memory consumption, ABEND, and…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 10.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Novell Netware 6.5 SP8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, memory consumption, ABEND, and crash) via a large number of malformed or AFP requests that are not properly handled by (1) the CIFS functionality in CIFS.nlm Semantic Agent (Build 163 MP) 3.27 or (2) the AFP functionality in AFPTCP.nlm Build 163 SP 3.27. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Novell Netware - CIFS and AFP Remote Memory Consumption Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 11009dos, multiplepublished 5 Jan 2010Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 11009 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.5% · top 4.2% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- ADV-2010-0041 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1023400 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://protekresearch.blogspot.com/2010/01/prl-cifsnlm-memory-consumption-denial.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 37616 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- netware-afptcp-dos(55389) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 11009 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 38114 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20100105 {PRL} Novell Netware CIFS And AFP Remote Memory Consumption DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-0348 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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