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Avaya Products vsftpd PAM Memory Leak Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA32263
Release Date: 2008-10-14
Popularity: 1,710 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Avaya Modular Messaging 3.x
Avaya SIP Enablement Services (SES) 3.x

Software:Avaya Communication Manager 3.x

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Description:
Avaya has acknowledged a vulnerability in various Avaya products, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a memory leak in vsftpd when using PAM and can be exploited to exhaust all available memory via multiple invalid authentication requests.

This is related to:
SA31223

The following products and versions are affected:
* Avaya Communication Manager (CM 3.1 and later)
* Avaya Intuity AUDIX LX (IALX 2.0)
* Avaya EMMC (all versions)
* Avaya Messaging Storage Server (MSS 3.x)
* Avaya Message Networking (MN 3.1)
* Avaya SIP Enablement Services (SES 3.1 and later)
* Avaya Meeting Exchange (ME 5.0)

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