Potential Trend Micro ServerProtect Security Risk
Posted on August 24th, 2007 in News by copiatech
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| High Probe Traffic Seen on ServerProtect Port 5168 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Trend Micro has been informed by the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) that there has been an increase in scans of port 5168, which is a key communication port utilized by our Trend Micro ServerProtect software. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Recently, Trend Micro has been made aware of potential vulnerabilities in the ServerProtect product and has been actively working on developing patches to eliminate these vulnerabilities. This sudden increase in scanning traffic could indicate malicious entities may be looking for ways to exploit vulnerable machines. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| To our knowledge there are to date no confirmed exploits of this vulnerability. Nevertheless, we implore security administrators to apply the latest ServerProtect security patch available from Trend Micro as soon as possible so to protect against any preventable potential attack. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| The latest security patches and readme files can be found at the following location: | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| If you have any additional questions or concerns, please contact your local Trend Micro support representative. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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