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Avaya krb5 Two Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA14201
Release Date: 2005-02-10
Popularity: 5,103 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Avaya Intuity LX
Avaya MN100
Avaya Modular Messaging 2.x
Avaya S8XXX Media Servers

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-0971
CVE-2004-1189


Description:
Avaya has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in krb5, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges and by malicious users to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA12967
SA13592

NOTE: Kerberos is not enabled per default.

The vulnerabilities affect:
* Avaya S8700/S8500/S8300 (CM2.0 and later)
* Avaya MN100 (All versions)
* Avaya Intuity LX (version 1.1 through 5.x)
* Avaya Modular Messaging MSS (All versions)

Solution:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

Do not run the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) server on affected systems.

Original Advisory:
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-036_RHSA-2005-012.pdf

Other References:
SA12967:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12967/

SA13592:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13592/


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