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TITLE:
Avaya Products OpenSSH Shell Command Injection and Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21724

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21724/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Privilege escalation

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Avaya Intuity LX
http://secunia.com/product/3279/
Avaya Message Networking 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/5801/
Avaya Modular Messaging 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4484/
Avaya Modular Messaging 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/8717/
Avaya S8XXX Media Servers
http://secunia.com/product/4519/

DESCRIPTION:
Avaya has acknowledged a vulnerability and a weakness in OpenSSH
included in various Avaya products, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges and by malicious users to bypass certain
security restrictions.

For more information:
SA8974
SA18579

The following products are affected:
* Avaya S87XX/S8500/S8300 (version CM3.0 and prior)
* Avaya Intuity LX (all versions)
* Avaya Messaging Storage Server (all versions)
* Avaya Message Networking (all versions)

SOLUTION:
Avaya S87XX/S8500/S8300:
Update to version CM 3.1.

The vendor recommends that local and network access to the affected
systems should be restricted until an update is available.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-174.htm

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA8974:
http://secunia.com/advisories/8974/

SA18579:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18579/

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