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Digest Name: daily HP Secure OS Software for Linux security bulletins digest
Created: Sat Mar 2 3:00:07 PST 2002

Table of Contents:

Document ID Title
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HPSBTL0203-028 Security vulnerability in PHP package
HPSBTL0203-027 Updated 2.4 kernel available
HPSBTL0203-026 New squid packages available

The documents are listed below.
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Document ID: HPSBTL0203-028
Date Loaded: 20020301
Title: Security vulnerability in PHP package

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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: #028
Originally issued: 01 March '02
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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 the
customer's failure to fully implement instructions in this Security
Bulletin as soon as possible.

Because the vulnerability does not require a HP Secure OS
1.0 patch or re-packaging of the RPM affected by the bulletin, the
RPMs have not been produced or tested by Hewlett-Packard Company.

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PROBLEM: Security vulnerability in PHP

PLATFORM: Any system running HP Secure OS software for Linux Release 1.0

DAMAGE: Remote attacker could potentially execute arbitrary code

SOLUTION: Apply the appropriate RPMs (see section B below)

MANUAL ACTIONS: None

AVAILABILITY: The RPMs are available now.
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A. Background

PHP is an HTML-embeddable scripting language. A number of flaws have
been found in the way PHP handles multipart/form-data POST requests.
Each of these flaws could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code
on the remote system. The php package is not included in the default
installation of HP Secure OS Software for Linux release 1.0.

B. Fixing the problem

Hewlett-Packard Company recommends that customers download the RPMs
listed in the following Red Hat Security Advisory:

2002-02-27 php-manual (RHSA-2002-035) Updated PHP packages
are available

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-035.html

To install the security bulletin RPMs, use the following sequence
of commands:

1. If you use the tripwire product, we recommend that you run a
a consistency check and fix any violations before installing
the security bulletin RPM.

tripwire --check --interactive

2. Install the bulletin RPM from the root account.

rpm -F <package name>

3. Update the tripwire database

tripwire --check --interactive

NOTE:
The rpm -q command can be used to determine if the
product is installed. Hewlett-Packard Company recommends applying the
Security Bulletin fixes to installed packages only. The -F option
to the RPM installer will only apply the fix if the package is
currently installed on the system. Dependent RPMs can be found by
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Document ID: HPSBTL0203-027
Date Loaded: 20020301
Title: Updated 2.4 kernel available

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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY ADVISORY: #027
Originally issued: 01 March '02
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The information in the following Security Advisory should be acted
upon as soon as possible. Hewlett-Packard Company will not be
liable for any consequences to any customer resulting from the
customer's failure to fully implement instructions in this Security
Advisory as soon as possible.

Because the vulnerability does not require a Hewlett-Packard Secure OS
1.0 patch or re-packaging of the RPM affected by the advisory, the
RPMs have not been produced or tested by Hewlett-Packard.

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PROBLEM: Problem with netfilter component within Linux kernel

PLATFORM: Any system running HP Secure OS software for Linux Release 1.0

DAMAGE: None

SOLUTION: Advisory only

MANUAL ACTIONS: None

AVAILABILITY: N/A
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A. Background

The Linux Netfilter team has found a problem in the IRC connection
tracking component of the firewall within the linux kernel. This
component is distributed with kernels in Red Hat Linux 7.1 and 7.2.

The netfilter component is not supported on version 1.0 of HP
Secure OS Software for Linux.

B. Fixing the problem

As netfilter is not supported, no action is required. This advisory
was published in reference to the following Red Hat Security Advisory:

2002-02-27 kernel-smp (RHSA-2002-028) Updated 2.4 kernel available

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-028.html

The Red Hat Advisory can safely be ignored for Secure OS Software
for Linux customers.

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Document ID: HPSBTL0203-026
Date Loaded: 20020228
Title: New squid packages available

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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: #026
Originally issued: 28 February '02
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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 the customer's
failure to fully implement instructions in this Security Bulletin
as soon as possible.

Because the vulnerability does not require a Hewlett-Packard
Secure OS 1.0 patch or re-packaging of the RPM affected by the
bulletin, the RPMs have not been produced or tested by Hewlett-Packard.

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PROBLEM: Memory leak, URL parsing crash, and activation errors in
Squid package

PLATFORM: Any system running HP Secure OS software for Linux Release 1.0

DAMAGE: Resource issue due to memory leak. Possible denial of service
due to FTP URL parsing code. HTCP service is active even if
disabled in configuration file.

SOLUTION: Apply the appropriate RPMs (see section B below)

MANUAL ACTIONS: None

AVAILABILITY: The RPMs are available now.
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A. Background

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server. Various issues
have been found in Squid up to and including version 2.4.STABLE2.
The issues include:
- a memory leak in the SNMP code
- a crash on specially-formatted data in FTP URL parsing
- HTCP would still be active, even if it was disabled in the config
file

The updated pacakge contains Squid version 2.4.STABLE3. Squid
is not included in the default installation of HP Secure OS
Software for Linux Release 1.0.

B. Fixing the problem

Hewlett-Packard Company recommends that customers who have installed
Squid download the RPMs listed in the following Red Hat
Security Advisory:

2002-02-26 squid (RHSA-2002-029) New squid packages available

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-018.html

To install the security bulletin RPMs, use the following sequence
of commands:

1. If you use the tripwire product, we recommend that you run a
a consistency check and fix any violations before installing
the security bulletin RPM.

tripwire --check --interactive

2. Install the bulletin RPM from the root account.

rpm -F <bulletin RPM name>

3. Update the tripwire database

tripwire --check --interactive



NOTE:
The rpm -q <package name> command can be used to determine if the
package is installed. Hewlett-Packard recommends applying the
security bulletin fixes to installed packages only. The -F option
to the RPM installer will only apply the fix if the package is
currently installed on the system. Dependent RPMs can be found by
using the "Find Latest RPMs" search facility at
http://www.redhat.com/apps/download. To find the latest dependent
RPM enter the RPM's name in the "By Keyword" box.


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To -subscribe- to future HP Security Bulletins or other
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or

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(in the middle column) for the appropriate digest.

D. To report new security vulnerabilities, send email to

security-alert@hp.com

Please encrypt any exploit information using the
security-alert PGP key, available from your local key
server. You may also get the security-alert PGP key by
sending a message with a -subject- (not body) of
'get key' (no quotes) to security-alert@hp.com.

Permission is granted for copying and circulating this
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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.
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-----End of Document ID: HPSBTL0203-026--------------------------------------

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