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TITLE:
Avaya Products Xterm Security Bypass Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27921

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27921/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Avaya Modular Messaging 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/8717/

DESCRIPTION:
Avaya has acknowledged a security issue in various Avaya products,
which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to
bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to xterm setting insecure
permissions for pseudo terminals. This may be exploited to modify
another user's xterm session.

The following products and versions are affected:
* Avaya Intuity Audix LX (IALX 2.0)
* Avaya Messaging Storage Server (MSS 3.x)
* Avaya Message Networking (MN 3.1)

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ASA-2007-490:
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-490.htm

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