Updated:  December 14, 2001

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: #00090, 07 December 1998 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: Various remote network commands have security defects. PLATFORM: HP 9000 Series 700/800 DAMAGE: Users can access unauthorized files / gain increased privileges. SOLUTION: Apply the cummulative patch listed below AVAILABILITY: All patches are available now. I. A. Background Various HP-UX remote network commands (r-cmnds) in the fileset InternetSrvcs.INETSVCS-RUN have been enhanced. These include remshd(1M), rexecd(1M), rlogind(1M), rlogin(1), remsh(1), rcp(1), rexec(1), and rdist(1). All of these commands have been bundled into one convenient patch to address various operational and security defects noted the recent past. B. Fixing the problem - Install patch: for HP-UX 10.00, 10.01 and 10.10: PHNE_13618, or for HP-UX 10.20 and 10.30: PHNE_13619, or for HP-UX 11.00: PHNE_16091. NOTE: The VirtualVault product (HP-UX 10.24) is not affected. C. To subscribe to automatically receive future NEW HP Security Bulletins from the HP Electronic Support Center via electronic mail, do the following: Use your browser to get to the HP Electronic Support Center page at: http://us-support.external.hp.com (for US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, & Latin-America) http://europe-support.external.hp.com (for Europe) Login with your user ID and password (or register for one). Remember to save the User ID assigned to you, and your password. Once you are in the Main Menu: To -subscribe- to future HP Security Bulletins, click on "Support Information Digests". To -review- bulletins already released from the main Menu, click on the "Search Technical Knowledge Database." Near the bottom of the next page, click on "Browse the HP Security Bulletin Archive". Once in the archive there is another link to our current Security Patch Matrix. Updated daily, this matrix categorizes security patches by platform/OS release, and by bulletin topic. The security patch matrix is also available via anonymous ftp: us-ffs.external.hp.com ~ftp/export/patches/hp-ux_patch_matrix 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, or 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 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.

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Addendum

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