Sygate Secure Enterprise replay denial of service
| sse-replay-dos (16945) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Sygate Secure Enterprise is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. A remote attacker could retrieve HTTP communications between the Sygate Security Agent (SSA) client and central logging server and replay them repeatedly to consume all available resources.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Sygate Secure Enterprise (3.5MR3 or later), available from the Sygate Enterprise Management Web site. See References.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Aug 10 2004 - 11:35:46 CDT : Corsaire Security Advisory - Sygate Secure Enterprise replay issue.
- Sygate Enterprise Management Web site: Sygate - Enterprise Security Solutions, Personal Firewall Solutions, Professional Services.
- BID-10909: Sygate Secure Enterprise Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-0163: Sygate Secure Enterprise (SSE) 3.5MR3 and earlier does not change the key used to encrypt data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by capturing a session and repeatedly replaying the session.
Platforms Affected:
- Sygate Secure Enterprise prior to 3.5MR3
Reported:
Aug 10, 2004
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