CVE-2005-1543: Novell Zenworks

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 66.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple stack-based and heap-based buffer overflows in Remote Management authentication (zenrem32.exe) on Novell ZENworks 6.5 Desktop and Server Management, ZENworks for Desktops 4.x, ZENworks for Servers 3.x, and Remote Management allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) unspecified vectors, (2) type 1 authentication requests, and (3) type 2 authentication requests.

Affected products

• Novell Zenworks: version 6.5 only
• Novell Zenworks Desktops: version 3.2 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only
• Novell Zenworks Remote Management: any version
• Novell Zenworks Server Management: version 6.5 only
• Novell Zenworks Servers: version 3.2 only

Published 2005-05-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.