Secunia Security Advisory - Avaya has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Avaya CMS and IR, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Avaya CMS / IR X.Org X11 Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25216
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25216/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation, DoS
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Avaya Call Management System (CMS)
http://secunia.com/product/4615/
DESCRIPTION:
Avaya has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Avaya CMS and IR,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose
sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain
escalated privileges.
For more information see vulnerabilities #1 through #3 in:
SA24741
The vulnerabilities affect the following versions:
* Avaya CMS V9, V11, R12, R13/R13.1, and R14
* Avaya IR 2.0 Solaris 10
SOLUTION:
Avaya CMS:
No patch is presently available.
Grant only trusted users access to affected applications.
Avaya IR:
No patch is presently available.
The vendor recommends removing the setuid bit and the setgid bit from
the Xorg and Xsun server, and from applications using the library (see
vendor advisory for details).
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-178.htm
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA24741:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24741/
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