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Digest Name: daily security bulletins digest
    Created: Thu Oct 18 3:00:03 PDT 2001

Table of Contents:

Document ID Title
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HPSBUX0110-172 Sec. Vulnerability in telnetd
HPSBUX0110-171 Sec. Vulnerability in IA HP-UX 11.20 only

The documents are listed below.
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Document ID: HPSBUX0110-172
Date Loaded: 20011016
      Title: Sec. Vulnerability in telnetd

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   HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: #0172
   Originally issued: 16 October 2001
 -----------------------------------------------------------------

The information in the following Security Bulletin should be acted
upon as soon as possible. Hewlett-Packard Company 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.

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PROBLEM: Systems running telnetd may permit unauthorized remote
         access.
         See: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-21.html

         This vulnerability has been assigned the identifier
         CAN-2001-0554 by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
         (CVE) group:
     http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2001-0554

PLATFORM: HP9000 Servers running HP-UX releases 10.X only.

DAMAGE: An intruder can potentially execute arbitrary code
         with the privileges of the telnetd process.

SOLUTION: Apply the following patches to the release specified.

        10.01 PHNE_24820,
        10.10 PHNE_24820,
        10.20 PHNE_24821,
    SIS 10.20 PHNE_24822 (Telnet kerberos Patch),
        10.24 PHNE_25217.

MANUAL ACTIONS: The Secure Internet Services (SIS) product, if
                enabled, has to be disabled before the installation
                or removal of PHNE_24822 (Telnet kerberos Patch).

AVAILABILITY: The patches are available now from http://itrc.hp.com.

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 A. Background
     A potential remotely exploitable buffer overflow in telnetd has
     been reported to Hewlett-Packard Company. It is unique to HP-UX
     releases 10.X only.

 B. Fixing the problem
     Disable telnetd (by commenting out the /etc/inetd.conf entry for
     telnetd and running '/usr/sbin/inetd -c') if telentd is not needed
     on your system.

     Install the appropriate patch from the list below.

 C. Recommended solution

    Apply the following patches to the release specified.

        10.01 PHNE_24820,
        10.10 PHNE_24820,
        10.20 PHNE_24821,
    SIS 10.20 PHNE_24822,
        10.24 PHNE_25217.

    All patches are available now from http://itrc.hp.com.

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 ________________________________________________________________
-----End of Document ID: HPSBUX0110-172--------------------------------------


Document ID: HPSBUX0110-171
Date Loaded: 20011016
      Title: Sec. Vulnerability in IA HP-UX 11.20 only

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    HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: #0171,
    Originally issued: 16 October '01
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
The information in the following Security Bulletin should be acted
upon as soon as possible. Hewlett-Packard Company 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: Security restrictions are not consistently enforced when
         starting applications under HP-UX 11.20.

PLATFORM: IPF running HP-UX 11.20 only.

DAMAGE: A user can gain increased privilege.

SOLUTION: Apply the patch mentioned below
                 HP-UX 11.20: PHSS_25454

MANUAL ACTIONS: None

AVAILABILITY: The patch is available now.

 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 A. Background
    Hewlett-Packard Company has discovered that on a native IA
    system running HP-UX 11.20, all HP-UX commands are incorrectly
    built.

 B. Fixing the problem
    Obtain and apply the patch:

                 HP-UX 11.20: PHSS_25454

C. To subscribe to automatically receive future NEW HP Security
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   In the left most frame select "Maintenance and Support".

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   for the appropriate digest and then click the "Update
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   or

   To -review- bulletins already released, select the link
   (in the middle column) for the appropriate digest.

   To -gain access- to the Security Patch Matrix, select
   the link for "The Security Bulletins Archive". (near the
   bottom of the page) Once in the archive the third link is
   to the current Security Patch Matrix. Updated daily, this
   matrix categorizes security patches by platform/OS release,
   and by bulletin topic. Security Patch Check completely
   automates the process of reviewing the patch matrix for
   11.XX systems.

   For information on the Security Patch Check tool, see:
   http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/
   displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B6834AA"

   The security patch matrix is also available via anonymous
   ftp:

   ftp.itrc.hp.com:~ftp/export/patches/hp-ux_patch_matrix

   On the "Support Information Digest Main" page:
   click on the "HP Security Bulletin Archive".

D. To report new security vulnerabilities, send email to

    security-alerthp.com

    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-alerthp.com.

    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: HPSBUX0110-171--------------------------------------

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