Re: Fw: APC 9606 SmartSlot Web/SNMP management card "backdoor" - MORE PROBLEMS
On Tuesday 17 Feb 2004 6:23 pm, thiago.vazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> We have many products from APC and we've tested that vulnerability in some
> of them and ..... following are the results.
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According to a Matias Kvaternik at APC (US) today, the bug was discovered
after the AP9606 was discontinued (we bought some less than one year ago),
and the engineering team has "no fix in the pipeline". He advises us to
switch off telnet access.
I would imagine most APC products are installed to last for a good three to
six years - upgrading power hardware is probably about as practical as
upgrading a load of networking equipment. I'm surprised, indeed disappointed,
that APC doesn't appear to provide critical security fixes for these
discontinued products; although I do only speak from very limited experience
of APC.
James Green