Updated:  August 17, 2001

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

HP Support Information Digests o IT Resource Center World Wide Web Service If you subscribed through the IT Resource Center and would like to be REMOVED from this mailing list, access the IT Resource Center on the World Wide Web at: http://www.itresourcecenter.hp.com/ Login using your IT Resource Center User ID and Password. Then select Support Information Digests (located under Maintenance and Support). You may then unsubscribe from the appropriate digest. Digest Name: daily security bulletins digest Created: Tue Apr 24 3:00:03 PDT 2001 Table of Contents: Document ID Title HPSBUX0104-149 Sec. Vulnerability in pcltotiff The documents are listed below. Document ID: HPSBUX0104-149 Date Loaded: 20010423 Title: Sec. Vulnerability in pcltotiff HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY ADVISORY #0149, 19 April 2001 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 customer's failure to fully implement instructions in this Security Advisory as soon as possible. PROBLEM: /opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff has unsafe permissions. PLATFORM: HP9000 Series 700/800 running HP-UX releases 10.01, 10.10, 10.20, 10.26 DAMAGE: Denial of service. SOLUTION: Change the permissions on /opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff. AVAILABILITY: This advisory will be upgraded to a bulletin when patches are available. I. A. Background /opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff is in group bin with set group id permissions. This is necessary to allow pcltotiff to read files in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/. B. Fixing the problem Remove the set group id permissions from pcltotiff and allow read access to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/. C. Recommended solution /sbin/chmod 555 /opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff /sbin/chmod o+r /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/* To avoid swverify errors: #!/sbin/sh /usr/sbin/swmodify -x files='/opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff' \ SharedPrint.SHPRNT-PCL for i in `/sbin/ls /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces` do /usr/bin/swmodify \ -x files='/usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/$i' \ X11.X11-FONTSRV done D. To subscribe to automatically receive future NEW HP Security Bulletins from the HP IT Resource Center via electronic mail, do the following: Use your browser to get to the HP IT Resource Center page at: http://itrc.hp.com Under the Maintenance and Support Menu (Electronic Support Center): click on the "more..." link. Then - Use the 'Login' tab at the left side of the screen to login using your ID and password. Check with your system administrator to see if you have an existing login or use the "Register" button at the left to create a login. You will need to login in order to gain access to many areas of the ITRC. Remember to save the User ID assigned to you, and your password. Under the Maintenance and Support Menu, click on the "more..." link. Under the "Notifications" section (near the bottom of the page), select "Support Information Digests". To -subscribe- to future HP Security Bulletins or other Technical Digests, click the check box (in the left column) for the appropriate digest and then click the "Update Subscriptions" button at the bottom of the page. or To -review- bulletins already released, select the link (in the middle column) for the appropriate digest. To -gain access- to the Security Patch Matrix, select the link for "The Security Bulletins Archive". Once in the archive the third link is 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: ftp.itrc.hp.com ~ftp/export/patches/hp-ux_patch_matrix" On the "Support Information Digest Main" page: click on the "HP Security Bulletin Archive". 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 Advisory to Hewlett-Packard (HP) customers (or the Internet community) for the purpose of alerting them to problems, if and only if, the Advisory 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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