Notified:  June 15, 2001 Updated: August 24, 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: Fri Aug 24 3:00:02 PDT 2001 Table of Contents: Document ID Title HPSBUX0106-154 Sec. Vulnerability in OpenView NNM (rev.1) The documents are listed below. Document ID: HPSBUX0106-154 Date Loaded: 20010823 Title: Sec. Vulnerability in OpenView NNM (rev.1) **REVISED01**HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: #0154, Originally issued: 20 June '01 LAST REVISED: 21 August '01 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: It is possible to gain unauthorized privileges in OpenView Network Node Manager. PLATFORM: HP9000 Servers running HP-UX releases 10.20 and 11.00 (only). Sun Microsystems SOLARIS releases 2.X Microsoft Windows NT4.X / Windows 2000 running NNM 6.1 DAMAGE: A malicious user may obtain unauthorized privileges under certain conditions. SOLUTION: Apply one of these patches: HP-UX 11.00 HP-UX 10.20 SOLARIS 2.X WinNT4.X/2000 PHSS_23780 PHSS_23779 PSOV_02905 NNM_00698 **REV 01** ------>> Note: NNM 6.2 is not vulnerable. AVAILABILITY: These four patches are Special Release patches are available only from http://ovweb.external.hp.com/cpe/patches/ They are not available from the ITRC. CHANGE SUMMARY: Clarification in Section B below and the SOLUTION section above. A. Background Hewlett-Packard Company has been notified of a vulnerability in its OpenView Network Node Manager. It is possible to gain unauthorized privileges. B. Fixing the problem Apply one of these patches: HP-UX 11.00 HP-UX 10.20 SOLARIS 2.X WinNT4.X/2000 PHSS_23780 PHSS_23779 PSOV_02905 NNM_00698 or a superseding patch. Searching http://ovweb.external.hp.com/cpe/patches/ for one of the patch numbers above will direct you to the latest superseding patch. **REV 01** ------>> Although versions of NNM prior to NNM 6.1 are not ------>> vulnerable in their default configuration, it is possible ------>> to modify the default configuration so as to make those ------>> versions vulnerable. Therefore, we recommend that all ------>> customers update to NNM 6.2 or install the appropriate ------>> patches for NNM 6.1. ------>> The patches listed above have been superseeded. If you ------>> have NNM 6.1 and have installed one of the patches listed ------>> above, no further action is required. The patches listed ------>> above are no longer available. These are the latest patches ------>> that solve the security problem in NNM 6.1: ------>> HP-UX 11.00 HP-UX 10.20 SOLARIS 2.X WinNT4.X/2000 ------>> PHSS_24443 PHSS_24442 PSOV_02956 NNM_00743 ------>> Note: one way to determine whether NNM is installed on ------>> your system is to run the following command: ------>> swlist | grep "Network Node Manager" C. 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 Use the 'Login' tab at the left side of the screen to login using your ID and password. Use your existing login or the "Register" button at the left to create a login, in order to gain access to many areas of the ITRC. Remember to save the User ID assigned to you, and your password. In the left most frame select "Maintenance and Support". 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For information on the Security Patch Check tool, see: http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/ cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B6834AA" 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". 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. -----End of Document ID: HPSBUX0106-154--------------------------------------

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