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TITLE:
Avaya CMS / IR Sun Solaris Sendmail Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21647

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21647/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Avaya Call Management System (CMS)
http://secunia.com/product/4615/

SOFTWARE:
Avaya Interactive Response 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4767/

DESCRIPTION:
Avaya has acknowledged a vulnerability in Avaya CMS and IR, which can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA20650

The following products are affected:
* IR (all versions)
* CMS v9, V11, R12, R13, R13.1

SOLUTION:
Avaya IR:
Apply patch 122856-02 provided by Sun.

Avaya CMS:
As a workaround, the vendor suggests setting the "ForkEachJob" option
and configuring sendmail to write statically named core files (see
vendor advisory for details).

The patch from Sun will be available from Avaya Services after it has
been tested by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-148.htm

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA20650:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20650/

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