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IBM Information for VU#738331

Date Notified08/14/2002
Date Modified04/15/2003 03:39:27 PM
Status SummaryVulnerable

Vendor Statement

The AIX operating system is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the res_nsend() resolver function, as mentioned above, in releases 4.3.3 and 5.1.0. This problem was discovered and fixed earlier while investigating a core dump from the "host" command.

The following APAR's are available for this fix:

AIX 4.3.3: IY31886

AIX 5.1.0: IY31889
The APAR's can be downloaded by going to the following URL, then following the links for your system release level.

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/servers/fixes?view=pseries

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