HP Support Information Digests =============================================================================== o HP Electronic Support Center World Wide Web Service --------------------------------------------------- If you subscribed through the HP Electronic Support Center and would like to be REMOVED from this mailing list, access the HP Electronic Support Center on the World Wide Web at: http://us-support2.external.hp.com Login using your HP Electronic Support Center User ID and Password. Then select Support Information Digests. You may then unsubscribe from the appropriate digest. =============================================================================== Digest Name: Daily Security Bulletins Digest Created: Mon Mar 30 6:00:59 EST 1998 Table of Contents: Document ID Title --------------- ----------- HPSBUX9803-077 Security Vulnerability with inetd on HP-UX The documents are listed below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Document ID: HPSBUX9803-077 Date Loaded: 980330 Title: Security Vulnerability with inetd on HP-UX ------------------------------------------------------------------------- HEWLETT-PACKARD SECURITY BULLETIN: #00077, 30 March 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in the following Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon as possible. Hewlett-Packard will not be liable for any consequences to any customer resulting from customer's failure to fully implement instructions in this Security Bulletin as soon as possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROBLEM: Improperly coded routines can result in susceptability to denial of service attacks. PLATFORM: HP9000 Series 7/800 running HP-UX releases 9.X, and 10.X only. DAMAGE: Vulnerability may allow networking to be disabled. SOLUTION: Apply patches listed below. AVAILABILITY: All patches are available now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. A. Background Hewlett-Packard has learned that inetd can terminate prematurely. B. Fixing the problem The problem can be fixed by applying the appropriate patch mentioned below. HP-UX release 9.X HP9000 Series 7/800 PHNE_14085 HP-UX release 10.00,10.01,10.10 HP9000 Series 7/800 PHNE_14086 HP-UX release 10.20 HP9000 Series 7/800 PHNE_14087 HP-UX release 10.24 HP9000 Series 7/800 PHNE_14377 HP-UX releases 10.30 and 11.X are not affected. C. Impact of the patch The patch makes inetd more robust to external factors. D. To subscribe to automatically receive future NEW HP Security Bulletins from the HP Electronic Support Center via electronic mail, do the following: User your browser to get to the HP Electronic Support Center page at: http://us-support.external.hp.com (for US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, & Latin-America) http://europe-support.external.hp.com (for Europe) Click on the Technical Knowledge Database, register as a user (remember to save the User ID assigned to you, and your password), and it will connect to a HP Search Technical Knowledge DB page. Near the bottom is a hyperlink to our Security Bulletin archive. Once in the archive there is another link to our current security patch matrix. Updated daily, this matrix is categorized by platform/OS release, and by bulletin topic. E. To report new security vulnerabilities, send email to security-alertat_private Please encrypt any exploit information using the security-alert PGP key, available from your local key server, or by sending a message with a -subject- (not body) of 'get key' (no quotes) to security-alertat_private Permission is granted for copying and circulating this Bulletin to Hewlett-Packard (HP) customers (or the Internet community) for the purpose of alerting them to problems, if and only if, the Bulletin is not edited or changed in any way, is attributed to HP, and provided such reproduction and/or distribution is performed for non-commercial purposes. Any other use of this information is prohibited. HP is not liable for any misuse of this information by any third party. ________________________________________________________________________ -----End of Document ID: HPSBUX9803-077--------------------------------------
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