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Secunia Advisory SA8614

NetScreen weaker VPN encryption
Secunia Advisory SA8614
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Release Date 2003-04-17
   
Popularity 6,098 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Workaround
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
NetScreen Global Pro 4.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

NetScreen Global PRO contains an error in the default configuration of phase 1 and phase 2 proposals using AES encryption. This causes firewall and VPN appliances to use DES encryption instead of AES.

This results in a lower grade encryption than expected, but does not expose your communication directly.

This has been confirmed for version 4.0.0r1 to 4.0.0r5 and 4.1.0r1


Solution
NetScreen has recommended the following configuration changes:
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www.netscreen.com/support/alerts/04_16_03_57226.html

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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