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Piranha's RH6.2 default password

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
logs into the remote piranha subsystem

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The 'piranha' package is installed on the remote host.
This package, as it is distributed with Linux RedHat 6.2,
comes with the login/password combination 'piranha/q'
(or piranha/piranha)

A possible hacker may use it to reconfigure your Linux Virtual Servers
(LVS).

Solution : upgrade the packages piranha-gui, piranha and piranha-docs to
version 0.4.13

Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 1148

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

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