CVE-2003-0638: Novell Ichain

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in Novell iChain 2.1 before Field Patch 3, and iChain 2.2 before Field Patch 1a, allow attackers to cause a denial of service (ABEND) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a long user name or (2) an unknown attack related to a "special script against login."

Affected products

• Novell Ichain: version 2.1 only

Published 2003-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.