Thank you to all respondants re the above, especially Troy from IBM who has raised a defect, responded very quickly and has offered a temporary patch, definatly an excellent responce. The problem seems to be with the declaration of the port being short rather than unsigned short. Negative values for -P do not work as a few people suggested. Security bugs with AIX should be addressed to security-alertat_private This, in the experience of myself and others who replied is much faster method of getting security related problems fixed. Thanks again, Brum On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Troy A. Bollinger wrote: > Quoting Brumbles (brummieat_private): > > > > I have tried unsuccessfully to get any response from IBM on the following, > > apparently unless you have a support contract you cant report bugs.. > > (well.. you can.. "Program Services", but thats a link to /dev/null > > apparently.) > > You can always send new AIX vulnerabilities to the > security-alertat_private mail address. > > > AixLevel AIX4.3.2 > > Packet Filtering Module, in particular the command genfilt does not allow > > the addition of filters with port numbers greater than 32767 > > > > I've opened defect 289790 to address this. It appears to be caused by > using a "short" instead of an "unsigned short" for the port number. > > -- > Troy Bollinger troyat_private > AIX Security Development security-alertat_private > PGP keyid: 1024/0xB7783129 Troy's opinions are not IBM policy >
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