Avaya Predictive Dialing System TCP/IP Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA16106
Release Date: 2005-07-19
Popularity: 5,065 views

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

OS:Avaya Predictive Dialing System (PDS)

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-1192


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

For more information:
SA15123

Solution:
The vendor recommends changing the "ip_pmtu_strategy" settings to disable PMTU negotiation and setting the PMTU to a static value of 1500 bytes (or 576 bytes).

Original Advisory:
Avaya:
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-160.pdf

Other References:
SA15123:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15123/


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