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Secunia Advisory SA18204

Avaya Modular Messaging POP3 Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA18204
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Release Date 2005-12-21
Last Update 2006-01-13
   
Popularity 8,870 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Avaya Modular Messaging 2.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-4471 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Avaya Modular Messaging, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the POP3 service of the Message Storage Server. This can be exploited to cause a vulnerable service to enter an infinite loop by sending specially crafted packets.

Successful exploitation requires that the POP3 service is enabled (not enabled by default).

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.0 Service Pack 4 and prior.


Solution
Apply patch A1312pt+p.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by vendor.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Avaya:
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-235.pdf

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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