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WebShield

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks the remote banner

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote WebShield server is subject to two flaws :

- It may let mail pass against some filter rules if the
attached files names have some strange chars in them
- It is possible for an outsider to crash this program
and force its reinstallation

*** Nessus did not actually test for these flaws - it just relied
*** on the banner to identify them. Therefore, this warning may be
*** a false positive

Solution : None yet
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 1589, 1993

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2000 Renaud Deraison

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