Jaap Ruijgrok wrote:
When I scan a NetWare SMTP server, Nessus reports "unknown (514/udp):
port is open". Later Nessus reports a vulnerability regarding
WinSyslog
on this port (514).

This mailserver sits behind a firewall (Cisco PIX) and I'm sure UDP
514
is not in any of the  access-lists. However the PIX has a fixup for
rsh
514.


My question is: why is UDP/514 mentioned as a vulnerability?

It's flagging that based on the fact that your scanner has unrestricted access to udp/514, which is usually a Syslog server listening for network transfers. Being UDP and often having no rate limiting, syslogd is usually considered a bad thing to have wide open. If you're filtering that address/port from the Internet and only authorized clients can reach it, you can probably disregard it.


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DS
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