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Blue Coat Systems OpenSSH Buffer Management Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9810
Release Date: 2003-09-22
Last Update: 2003-10-08
Popularity: 6,170 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Blue Coat CacheOS 3.x
Blue Coat CacheOS 4.x
Blue Coat Director (SGME)
Blue Coat Security Gateway OS (SGOS) 2.x
Blue Coat Security Gateway OS (SGOS) 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2003-0693


Description:
Various Blue Coat Systems products are affected by the OpenSSH buffer management vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system or cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on the network device or the SSH and management interfaces.

For more information:
SA9743

The vulnerability affects the following products:
* CacheOS (CA/SA 4.1.10 and prior)
* SG2 Secure Proxy (SGOS 2.1.9 and prior)
* ProxySG (SGOS 3.1.0 and prior)
* Director / SGME (2.1.06 and prior).

NOTE: The products may potentially also be affected by other newly discovered vulnerabilities in OpenSSH. However, this has not been confirmed.

Solution:
Apply patches.

Patch for SGOS 3.1.0.1:
http://download.bluecoat.com/release/SGOS3/index.html

Patch for SGOS 2.1.9.4:
http://download.bluecoat.com/release/SGOS/index.html

CacheOS CA/SA 4.1.11:
ETA 2003-10-20

Restrict access to the SSH service allowing only trusted systems to connect.

Changelog:
2003-10-08: Blue Coat releases patches for SGOS and advisory. "Solution" section changed and link to new advisory added.

Original Advisory:
http://www.bluecoat.com/support/knowl...ory_openSSH_buffer_vulnerability.html
http://www.bluecoat.com/downloads/support/BCS_OpenSSH_vulnerability.pdf

Other References:
SA9743:
http://secunia.com/advisories/9743/


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