Proventia Lets Remote Users Evade Detection With Certain Character Encodings
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1018068 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1018068
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2007-2690
(Links to External Site)
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Updated: May 16 2007
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Original Entry Date: May 16 2007
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Impact:
Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information, User access via network
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes Exploit Included: Yes
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Proventia. A remote user can evade detection.
A remote user can encode packets using a full-width or half-width unicode character set to evade detection by the target device.
Fatih Ozavci and Caglar Cakici of Gamasec Security discovered this vulnerability.
The original advisory is available at:
http://www.gamasec.net/english/gs07-01.html
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Impact:
A remote user can evade detection by the intrusion prevention system.
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Solution:
The vendor issued a fix in the May XPU release (Proventia PAM Content Update 27.010).
The vendor's advisory is included in the release notes.
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Vendor URL: www.iss.net/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Input validation error
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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