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TITLE:
Avaya Various Products sharutils Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15717

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15717/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Avaya S8XXX Media Servers
http://secunia.com/product/4519/
Avaya Modular Messaging 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4484/
Avaya MN100
http://secunia.com/product/4483/
Avaya Intuity LX
http://secunia.com/product/3279/
Avaya Converged Communications Server (CCS) 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4520/

DESCRIPTION:
Avaya has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in sharutils included in
various products, which potentially can be exploited by malicious,
local users to conduct certain actions on a vulnerable system with
escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA14551

Some other potential security issues have also been reported.

SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends users not to execute sharutil commands (e.g.
"shar" and "unshar").

An update is reportedly considered for a future release.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Avaya:
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-135_RHSA-2005-377.pdf

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA14551:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14551/

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