Information Security News: Bugs Found In Baked-In Barracuda Backdoors

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http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/perimeter-security/240146954/bugs-found-in-baked-in-barracuda-backdoors.html

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
Jan 24, 2013

An Austrian researcher discovered flaws in deliberate backdoors built into 
Barracuda Networks' Web Filter, Message Archiver, Web Application Firewall, 
Link Balancer, and SSL VPN products. The security vendor today patched the 
bugs, but left the option up to its customers whether to disable the conduit to 
their devices.
Steve Powell, vice president of product management at Barracuda, says the 
special "tunnel" option in the products is for back-end support with the 
vendor.
"When customers request access to the system, they use the Remote Support 
Tunnel capability. They call us up, and we can bring up their screens ... with 
them," Powell says. "They open a remote support capability to do that."
But Sec Consult found the backdoors and vulnerabilities in them as well as 
authentication bypass flaws in Barracuda's products.
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