Apple Not Affected

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Not Affected

Vendor Statement

Mac OS X does not contain the 'periodic' application and is not vulnerable.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.

BSDI Not Affected

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Not Affected

Vendor Statement

No versions of BSD/OS are vulnerable to this problem. It does appear to be a problem with the new FreeBSD version and is not present in the original scripts that were part of 4.4BSD.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.

Caldera Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

Compaq Computer Corporation Not Affected

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Not Affected

Vendor Statement

We don't use/ship with this.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

Data General Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

Debian Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

FreeBSD Affected

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

Fujitsu Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

Hewlett Packard Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

IBM Not Affected

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: January 10, 2001

Status

Not Affected

Vendor Statement

IBM's AIX operating system is not vulnerable to this exploit.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

NCR Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

NEC Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

NetBSD Not Affected

Updated:  November 02, 2000

Status

Not Affected

Vendor Statement

The problem reported does not apply to NetBSD, as no version of NetBSD uses FreeBSD's "periodic" script for scheduling periodic tasks.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

OpenBSD Not Affected

Notified:  November 01, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Not Affected

Vendor Statement

As far as we know [periodic is FreeBSD specific]. We have various cron jobs, but we've done extensive work to fix security issues in them.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

RedHat Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

SCO Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

Sequent Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

SGI Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

Sony Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

Sun Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

Unisys Unknown

Notified:  November 02, 2000 Updated: November 13, 2000

Status

Unknown

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

CERT/CC believes that the 'periodic' script is normally used only with FreeBSD.

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