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Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Secure PIX Firewall SMTP Filtering Vulnerability

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Overview The PIX is a firewall appliance based on a hardened, specially built operating system, PIX OS, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes. The PIX has received ICSA Firewall and IPsec certification as well as Common Criteria EAL4 evaluation status. The Cisco Secure PIX firewall feature "Mailguard" which limits SMTP commands to a specified minimum set of commands can be bypassed. This vulnerability can be exploited to bypass SMTP command filtering.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2001
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls, Network Security, Security Tools

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