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IBM Information for VU#266817

Date Notified:2002-10-07
Date Updated:
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Status Summary:Vulnerable

Vendor Statement

The AIX operating system is vulnerable to the SUN RPC libc DOS attack, as mentioned above, in releases 4.3.3, 5.1.0 and 5.2.0.

The following APARs will be available for this fix:

APAR number for AIX 4.3.3: IY36463 (available approx. 11/27/2002)
APAR number for AIX 5.1.0: IY36507 (available approx. 4/28/2003)
APAR number for AIX 5.2.0: IY36854 (available approx. 4/28/2003)

The APARs can be downloaded using the link below and then following the links for your release level.

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/rs6k/fixes.html

An efix is available for this issue and is available from the following URL:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/rpc_efix.tar.Z

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The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

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