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Avaya CMS / IR Sun Solaris Sendmail Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA21647
Release Date: 2006-08-30
Popularity: 7,688 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

OS:Avaya Call Management System (CMS)

Software:Avaya Interactive Response 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1173


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

For more information:
SA20650

The following products are affected:
* IR (all versions)
* CMS v9, V11, R12, R13, R13.1

Solution:
Avaya IR:
Apply patch 122856-02 provided by Sun.

Avaya CMS:
As a workaround, the vendor suggests setting the "ForkEachJob" option and configuring sendmail to write statically named core files (see vendor advisory for details).

The patch from Sun will be available from Avaya Services after it has been tested by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-148.htm

Other References:
SA20650:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20650/


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