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Secunia Advisory SA20377

Secure Elements Class 5 AVR Message Encryption Security Issue
Secunia Advisory SA20377
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Release Date 2006-05-31
Last Update 2006-06-07
   
Popularity 6,813 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where From local network
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Operating System
Secure Elements C5 Enterprise Vulnerability Management (EVM) 2.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-2711 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A security issue has been reported in Secure Elements Class 5 AVR, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to the same encryption key and initialization vector being used to encrypt messages for every message session. This potentially allows an attacker to discover some information about the encrypted messages.

The security issue has been reported in version 2.8.1. Prior versions may also be affected.


Solution
Restrict access of the network to trusted users only.

Provided and/or discovered by
Discovered by NCIRT lab and reported via US-CERT.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
US-CERT VU#346377:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/346377

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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