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Avaya Security Advisory:  Unauthorized SNMP Access possible to P330, P130, and M770-ATM Cajun family

Advisory Original Release Date: July 8, 2002
Last Revised: July 22, 2002
Advisory Version: 1.1

Advisory Status: Final

Overview: Avaya MSNI technical support has recently confirmed a previously unconfirmed security issue that could permit SNMP access to Avaya P330, P130 and M770-ATM Cajun family products within a LAN system. This security issue is contained within the LAN environment and a security problem is not likely to be exploited via Internet access within appropriately designed secured network environments. The identified LAN based security issue is inherent in previously released software versions of the Avaya P330, P130 and M770-ATM switch products (“Effected Products”).

The security issue as a point of network equipment attack is relatively obscure and there have been no reports of intrusion resulting from this issue; however, Avaya recommends a fix for all customers who are concerned about security risks for their networks.

Impact: Exploitation of this security issue enables unauthorized administrative access to the device. It is expected that firewalls should generally prevent access at the network perimeter from untrusted sources, particularly SNMP communication, thereby already minimizing the potential impact.

Recommended Actions: Upgrade the Effected Products with the provided updates as appearing in the following table:

List of Avaya products affected: 

Product

Version

Info/Status

P130

 All

  Fix is now available in release 2.9.2 at: Click Here.

P330 Ethernet Switches  (including P33xT, P333R, P333R-LB, and P33x-ML)

 All

  Fix is now available in release 3.11 at: Click Here

M770-ATM

 All

  Fix is now available in release 2.3.12 at: Click Here
M770 Supervisor (M-SPX, M-SPS)  All   Fix is now available in release 3.3.1 at: Click Here

Acknowledgement:  Avaya would like to thank Jacek Lipkowski <sq5bpf@andra.com.pl> from ANDRA Co. Ltd. for discovering this security issue and working with Avaya to resolve it, including testing a fixed version.

Additional Information: Additional information may be available via the Avaya support website (http://support.avaya.com) and your Avaya account representative.

Disclaimer: ALL INFORMATION IS BELIEVED TO BE CORRECT AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION AND IS OFFERED "AS IS".  AVAYA INC. IS PROVIDING THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS ADVISORY AS A HELPFUL TOOL TO CUSTOMERS.  AVAYA INC. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND FURTHERMORE, AVAYA INC. MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES THAT THE STEPS RECOMMENDED WILL ELIMINATE ALL SECURITY THREATS TO THEIR SYSTEMS. IN NO EVENT SHALL AVAYA INC. BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE INFORMATION OR FIXES, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF AVAYA INC. HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.  

Revision History:

V 1.0 - July 8, 2002 - Initial statement issued.
V 1.1 - July 22, 2002 - Corrected wording on P130 status, from version 2.3.9 to the correct software version 2.9.2; updated the four links in the status section to locations on support.avaya.com.

See http://support.avaya.com/security for the latest status of this advisory.

Send information regarding any discovered security problems with Avaya products to either the contact noted in the product’s documentation or securityalerts@avaya.com.

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