-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- __________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN HP UX & MPEix Predictive Vulnerability August 5, 1998 23:00 GMT Number I-081 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Hewlett Packard has identified a vulnerability with the e-mail or modem traffic to and from on-site customer machines and Response Center Predictive machines. PLATFORM: HP9000 series 700/800, HP-UX releases 9.X, 10.X, and 11.00. All HP3000 Series 900 systems running MPE/iX Release 5.0 and MPE/iX Release 5.5. DAMAGE: Data transfer may be compromised. SOLUTION: Apply the appropriate patch noted below. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The information in the following Security Bulletin should be ASSESSMENT: acted upon as soon as possible. ______________________________________________________________________________ [ Start Hewlett-Packard Advisories ] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Document ID: HPSBUX9807-081 Date Loaded: 19980728 Title: Security Vulnerability with Predictive on HP-UX - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- HEWLETT-PACKARD SECURITY BULLETIN: #00081, 29 July 1998 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in the following Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon as possible. Hewlett Packard 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: Fixes a problem with the e-mail or modem traffic to and from on-site customer machines and Response Center Predictive machines. PLATFORM: HP9000 series 700/800, HP-UX releases 9.X, 10.X, and 11.00 DAMAGE: Data transfer may be compromised. SOLUTION: Apply the appropriate patch noted below. AVAILABILITY: All patches are now available. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. A. Background Many on-site customer machines are running Predictive. This issue is relevant to those users who send Predictive messages and/or receive Predictive messages by modem or by e-mail, on all versions released to date. The predictive executable can be found in /opt/pred/bin. B. Fixing the problem The problem can be fixed by applying the appropriate Predictive Support cumulative patch mentioned below. C. Recommended solution HP-UX release 9.04 PHSS_14587 and PHSS_5788, HP-UX release 10.01 PHSS_15532, HP-UX release 10.10 PHSS_15533, HP-UX release 10.20 PHSS_15534, HP-UX release 10.30 PHSS_15535, HP-UX release 11.00 PHSS_14592. Any HP-UX version released on or after June 1998 contains the Security fix which shipped with that Indepedent Product release (IPR), 9806. IPR's are currently shipped every two months. D. 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 "Technical Knowledge Database (Security Bulletins only)". 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 is categorizes security patches by platform/OS release, and by bulletin topic. E. 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. ________________________________________________________________________ - -----End of Document ID: HPSBUX9807-081-------------------------------------- Document ID: HPSBMP9807-005 Date Loaded: 19980729 Title: Security Vulnerability with Predictive on MPEix - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- HEWLETT-PACKARD SECURITY BULLETIN: (MPE/iX) #0005, 30 July 1998 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in the following Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon as possible. Hewlett Packard 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: Fixes a problem with the e-mail or modem traffic to and from on-site customer machines and Response Center Predictive machines. PLATFORM: All HP3000 Series 900 systems running MPE/iX Release 5.0 and MPE/iX Release 5.5. DAMAGE: Data transfer may be compromised. SOLUTION: Apply the appropriate patch noted below. AVAILABILITY: All patches are now available. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. A. Background Many on-site customer machines are running Predictive. This issue is relevant to those users who send Predictive messages and/or receive Predictive messages by modem or by e-mail. B. Recommended solution The system administrator needs to obtain and apply the patches mentioned below. C. Fixing the problem 1. Obtain the patch Obtain the appropriate patch from the HP Electronic Support Center, URL: http://us-support.external.hp.com (US,Canada, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America) http://europe-support.external.hp.com (Europe) Follow the "Patch Database" hyperlink from the HP Electronic Support Center home page. 2. Apply the patch MPE/iX patches are unpacked using the UNPACKP script. UNPACKP runs the MOVER utility to unload the truck file for the patch. Hyperlinks for the UNPACKP script and the MPE Patch Installation Guide are located on the main page for MPE/iX patches on HP Electronic Support Center. You need MOVER version A.00.02, EOF (end-of-file) 635, to unload MPE/iX patches. You can download this version of MOVER from the HP3000 Web Server at http://jazz.external.hp.com. Follow the Shareware and Sources & Binaries hyperlinks. D. Solution impact All patches will require rebooting the system. OSPKXA8 (A) for MPE iX 5.5 OSPKXC5 (A) for MPE iX 5.0 The problem will be fixed in the MPEiX 6.0 general release. E. 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 "Technical Knowledge Database (Security Bulletins only)". 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 is categorizes security patches by platform/OS release, and by bulletin topic. F. 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. ________________________________________________________________________ - -----End of Document ID: HPSBMP9807-005-------------------------------------- [ End Hewlett-Packard Advisories ] ______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Hewlett-Packard for the information contained in this bulletin. ______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. 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