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Juniper will repatch its Netscreen operating system

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After scrutinizing the two operating systems that run its networking and security products, Juniper Networks gives them both a clean bill of health, but it plans to replace a part of one that was exploited by unknown parties to undermine its Netscreen security gear.

Juniper revealed last month that it had found two flaws in its ScreenOS operating system and patched them, but now it plans to patch one of them again to make the security of the operating system stronger, according to a Juniper blog.

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Network World Tim Greene

Juniper NetScreen firewall should be patched now

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The Internet Storm Center has upgraded its warning about the corruption of Juniper ScreenOS firewalls to yellow, which means it’s imperative to patch them today, literally, given that details on how to exploit the flaws has been published and that it’s a holiday week when applying firewall patches can be easily overlooked.

According to the ISC warning, the upgraded yellow warning was made because Juniper’s NetScreen firewalls are popular and that the “’backdoor’ password is now known, and exploitation is trivial at this point,” and for most businesses, this “being a short week for many of us, addressing this issue today is critical.”

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Network World Tim Greene