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Digest Name: Daily Security Bulletins Digest
Created: Mon Oct 16 3:00:02 PDT 2000
Table of Contents:
Document ID Title
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HPSBUX0010-125 Sec. Vulnerability in lpspooler
HPSBUX0007-117 Sec. Vulnerability in ftpd **Rev.03**
The documents are listed below.
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Document ID: HPSBUX0010-125
Date Loaded: 20001015
Title: Sec. Vulnerability in lpspooler
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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: #0125, 16 Oct. '00
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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: The lpspool subsystem has various security oriented defects.
PLATFORM: HP9000 Servers running HP-UX releases 10.XX and 11.XX,
DAMAGE: Users could increase privileges.
SOLUTION: Apply appropriate patches for each release:
For HP-UX 11.00: PHCO_22365,
HP-UX 10.20: PHCO_22364,
HP-UX 10.10: PHCO_22411,
HP-UX 10.01: PHCO_22410.
AVAILABILITY: The patches are available now.
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I.
A. Background
Hewlett-Packard Company has been notified of various vulnerabilities
in its lpspooler subsystem in the fileset PrinterMgmt.LP-SPOOL.
Several subsystem commands have memory buffer overflows and may
not behave correctly.
B. Fixing the problem:
Apply one of the patches listed below. Please make note
of necessary patch dependencies.
For HP-UX release 11.00: PHCO_22365,
HP-UX release 10.20: PHCO_22364,
HP-UX release 10.10: PHCO_22411,
HP-UX release 10.01: PHCO_22410.
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Document ID: HPSBUX0007-117
Date Loaded: 20001015
Title: Sec. Vulnerability in ftpd **Rev.03**
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**REVISED03** HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: #0117, 11 July '00
Last Revised: 16 Oct. '00
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The information in the following Security Bulletin should be acted upon
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implement instructions in this Security Bulletin as soon as possible.
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PROBLEM: The ftp server (ftpd) on HP-UX allows users root access.
PLATFORM: HP9000 Servers running HP-UX releases 10.XX and 11.0X$.
HP-UX 11.0X - Both Problem #1 and #2 below;
HP-UX 10.2X, 10.10 and 10.01 - Problem #2 only
DAMAGE: Possible unauthorized root access.
**REVISED03**
SOLUTION: Apply appropriate patches listed below.
For HP-UX release 11.00 PHNE_21936,
HP-UX release 11.04 PHNE_22060,
HP-UX release 10.20 PHNE_22057,
HP-UX release 10.24 PHNE_22059,
HP-UX releases 10.01 and 10.10 PHNE_22058.
AVAILABILITY: All patches are available now.
CHANGE SUMMARY: Rev.03 Provided full patch identification, change
from Advisory to Bulletin, and new ftp site.
Rev.02 Added MD5 checksums, 10.00 and 10.10 binaries
Rev.01 Corrected typo in filename to be installed.
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I.
A. Background
There are 2 problems with FTP Server (ftpd) on HP-UX.
1. ftpd handling of the SITE EXEC command that allows remote
users to gain root access. This is possible in the default
configuration of ftpd on HP-UX 11.0X ONLY.
2. ftpd does not properly format the parameters to the
setproctitle() function, allowing users to gain root access.
This problem applies to both 11.0X and 10.XX.
**Revised 03**
Reference: CERT Advisory CA-2000-13 Two Input Validation
Problems in FTPD
B. Fixing the problem
The problem can be fixed by applying a patch.
**Revised 03**
C. Recommended solution
Full swinstallable patches are now available from the HP IT
Resource Center site.
For HP-UX release 11.00 PHNE_21936,
HP-UX release 11.04 PHNE_22060,
HP-UX release 10.20 PHNE_22057,
HP-UX release 10.24 PHNE_22059,
HP-UX release 10.01 and 10.10 PHNE_22058.
Note: There are dependencies for PHNE_22059, HP-UX 10.24.
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-----End of Document ID: HPSBUX0007-117--------------------------------------
