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HP SECURITY BULLETIN

HPSBTU01227     REVISION: 0

SSRT5971 rev.0 - HP Tru64 Unix FTP Daemon (ftpd) Remote Denial of Service (DoS)

NOTICE:  
	

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The information in this Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon as possible.
INITIAL RELEASE:   	

19 September 2005 

POTENTIAL SECURITY IMPACT:   	

Remote Denial of Service (DoS)
SOURCE:   	

Hewlett-Packard Company
HP Software Security Response Team
VULNERABILITY SUMMARY:
A potential security Vulnerability has been identified with the
HP Tru64 UNIX ftp daemon (File Transfer Protocol server daemon).
Under certain circumstances, remote authorized users could
cause an ftp server to become unresponsive.
REFERENCES:   	

None
SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS*:  ONLY impacted versions are listed.
HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1B-3
HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1B-2/PK4
HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1A PK
HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0G PK4
HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0F PK8
BACKGROUND:
For a PGP signed version of this bulletin please
write to security-alert@hp.com
RESOLUTION:
Until the resolutions are available in  a mainstream release patch kit,
HP is releasing the following Early Release Patch (ERP) kits publicly
for use by any customer.

The ERP kits use dupatch to install and will not install over any
installed Customer Specific Patches (CSPs) that have file intersections
with the ERPs.

Please contact your service provider for assistance if the ERP installation
is blocked by any of your installed CSPs.

The resolutions contained in the ERP kits are scheduled to be available in the
following mainstream patch kit: 

    HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1B-4

Early Release Patches

    The ERPs deliver the following file:

        /usr/sbin/ftpd


Kits are available for the following versions.

HP Tru64 UNIX  5.1B-3
ERP Kit Name: T64KIT0026411-V51BB26-ES-20050912
Kit Location: 
http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=T64KIT0026411-V51BB26-ES-20050912
MD5 checksum: 58d9ee9767b23426d35787875bb6acb0

HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1B-2/PK4
ERP Kit Name: T64KIT0026414-V51BB25-ES-20050912
Kit Location: 
http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=T64KIT0026414-V51BB25-ES-20050912
MD5 checksum: a86e8bc3fea2f62471ede2cef0c9f02e

HP Tru64 UNIX  5.1A PK6
ERP Kit Name: T64KIT0026413-V51AB24-ES-20050912
Kit Location: 
http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=T64KIT0026413-V51AB24-ES-20050912
MD5 checksum: 2a00df40f1c3c38aed89d60943940fb6

HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0G PK4
ERP Kit Name: T64KIT0026424-V40GB22-ES-20050913
Kit Location: 
http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=T64KIT0026424-V40GB22-ES-20050913
MD5 checksum: 2dbfa6af9945cf97cef3056e1fe90db3

HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0F PK8
Kit Location: 
http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=DUXKIT0026426-V40FB22-ES-20050913
MD5 checksum: f31c7a6d8907f66bb6292d9fd45b22a3

General ITRC Patch Page: http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/mainPage.do
BULLETIN REVISION HISTORY:
Revision 0: 19 September 2005
    Initial Release

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