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Vulnerability Assessment Details

NAI Management Agent overflow

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains if the remote NAI WebShield SMTP Management trusts us

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote NAI WebShield SMTP Management tool
is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which permits
a possible hacker to gain execute arbitrary code
on this host when it is issued a too long argument
as a configuration parameter.

In addition to this, it permits a possible hacker to disable
the service at will.

* To re-enable the service :

- execute regedit
- edit the registry key 'Quarantine_Path' under
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Network Associates\TVD\WebShield SMTP\MailScan
- change its value from 'XXX...XXX' to the valid path to
the quarantine folder.
- restart the service

Solution : filter incoming traffic to this port. You
may also restrict the set of trusted hosts in the
configuration console :
- go to the 'server' section
- select the 'trusted clients' tab
- and set the data accordingly

Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 1254

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

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