BlueCoat.WinProxy.Telnet.DoS

Release Date Jan 06, 2006
Severity medium
Impact Denial of Service or system compromise.
Description It indicates a possible exploit of Denial of Service vulnerability Blue Coat Systems Inc. WinProxy that may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large number of packets with 0xFF characters to the Telnet port (TCP 23), which corrupts the heap.
Affected Products Blue Coat Systems WebProxy 6.0 and before.
Recommended Actions Blue Coat Systems WebProxy 6.1 a or later.
Coverage IPS VCM
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) CVE-2005-3654
Reference/s http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16149 (BugTraq)

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