Security Advisory SA31905 - Nortel Switched Firewall Products SNMPv3 HMAC Authentication Bypass

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Secunia Advisory SA31905

Nortel Switched Firewall Products SNMPv3 HMAC Authentication Bypass

Secunia Advisory

SA31905

Release Date

2008-09-15

Last Update

2009-05-15

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Spoofing

Where

From local network

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Unpatched

Systems affected

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Approve distribution

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Remediation status

Secunia VIM

Operating System

Nortel Switched Firewall 5100 Series

Nortel Switched Firewall 6000 Series

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CVE Reference(s)

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Description

Nortel has acknowledged a vulnerability in Nortel Switched Firewall products, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof authenticated SNMPv3 packets.

For more information:
SA30574

Solution
The vendor recommends to disable SNMPv3 as a workaround.
Changelog
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Original Advisory
Nortel Networks:
http://www116.nortel.com/pub/repository/CLARIFY/DOCUMENT/2009/19/023834-04.pdf

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