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TITLE:
Avaya Products Shadow "useradd.c" Insecure Mailbox File Permissions

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25896

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25896/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Avaya Modular Messaging 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/8717/
Avaya Converged Communications Server (CCS) 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/8091/
Avaya SIP Enablement Services (SES) 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/8090/

DESCRIPTION:
Avaya has acknowledged a security issue in various Avaya products,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to
perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA20370

The security issue affects the following products:
* Avaya Communication Manager (CM 2.x, 3.x and 4.x)
* Avaya Messaging Storage Server (MSS 3.x)
* Avaya Message Networking (MN 3.x)
* Avaya CCS/SES (CCS/SES 3.1.1)
* Avaya AES (AES 4.0)

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-249.htm

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA20370:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20370/

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