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Avaya Products Xterm Security Bypass Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA27921
Release Date: 2007-12-05
Popularity: 4,310 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Avaya Modular Messaging 3.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Avaya has acknowledged a security issue in various Avaya products, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to xterm setting insecure permissions for pseudo terminals. This may be exploited to modify another user's xterm session.

The following products and versions are affected:
* Avaya Intuity Audix LX (IALX 2.0)
* Avaya Messaging Storage Server (MSS 3.x)
* Avaya Message Networking (MN 3.1)

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