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Avaya CMS Solaris SSH X11 Forwarding Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory: SA30230  
Release Date: 2008-05-14

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Avaya Call Management System (CMS)


CVE reference:CVE-2008-1483 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Avaya has acknowledged a vulnerability in CMS, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information or potentially perform actions with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA30086

NOTE: CMS is setup with "X11Forwarding" set to "no" by default.

Solution:
Set "X11Forwarding" to "no".

Grant only trusted users access to an affected system.

Original Advisory:
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-205.htm

Other References:
SA30086:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30086/



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