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TITLE:
Cisco Products SSL/TLS and SSH Validation Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23836

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23836/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Spoofing

WHERE:
>From local network

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS) 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/6780/

SOFTWARE:
Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/12574/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Cisco products, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.

The problem is that the SSL/TLS certificates and SSH public keys
presented by devices are not being validated. This can be exploited
to conduct spoofing attacks and possibly gain knowledge of sensitive
information.

The security issue reported in the following products:
*  Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS)
versions prior to 4.2.3.
*  Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM) versions prior to
5.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to the latest version.

Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS):
Update to version 4.2.3.
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/cs-mars?psrtdcat20e2

Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM):
Update to version 5.2.
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/asa-interim?psrtdcat20e2

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Jan Bervar, NIL Data Communications.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20070118-certs.shtml

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