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 ESB-2003.0604 -- HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: HPSBUX0308-274
         SSRT3617 Potential security vulnerability in OpenView DCE
                              28 August 2003

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:                HP IT/Operations
                        OpenView VP Manager
                        Advanced Security for VP Operations
                        HP OpenView Operations (OVO)
                        VP Manager
                        HP OpenView Operations Manager
                        HP OpenView Performance Agent
Publisher:              Hewlett-Packard
Operating System:       HP-UX
                        Solairs
                        Linux
                        Windows
Impact:                 Denial of Service
Access Required:        Remote

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 Source: HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
 SECURITY BULLETIN: HPSBUX0308-274
 Originally issued: 26 August 2003
 SSRT3617 Potential security vulnerability in OpenView DCE
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NOTICE: There are no restrictions for distribution of this
Bulletin provided that it remains complete and intact.

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.

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PROBLEM: Potential security vulnerability in DCE.

IMPACT: DCE processes may fail.

PLATFORM: Solaris and Linux systems running an agent
          supplied by one or more of the following:

          B6931DA HP IT/Operations A.05.x,
          B6931AA HP IT/Operations A.05.x,
          B7405DA OV VP Manager for Solaris A.06.x,
          B7405AA OV VP Manager for HP-UX A.06.x,
          B7502DA ADVANCED SECURITY FOR VP OPERATIONS
                  SOLARIS A.06.x,
          B7502AA ADVANCED SECURITY FOR VP OPERATIONS
                  HP-UX A.06.x,
          B7406DA HP OVO 7.0 FOR SOLARIS A.07.X,
          B7406AA HP OVO 7.0 FOR HP-UX A.07.X,
          B7405WA VP Manager for Windows A.06.x,
          B7406XA HP OPENVIEW OPERATIONS MANAGER 7.X FOR WINDOWS,
                  A.07.x
          B7428AA HP OV PERFORMANCE AGENT SUN-SOLARIS C.02.05 and
                  subsequent

SOLUTION: Please contact your HP support representative
          for information concerning a preliminary fix.

MANUAL ACTIONS: Non-HP-UX only

AVAILABILITY:  This bulletin will be revised when patches are
               available.
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 A. Background

    The worm referred to as "Blaster" or "W32.Blaster.worm", may
    impact hp OpenView products running on Microsoft Windows,
    HP-UX, Solaris and Linux.

    More information about the worm can be found at:
    <http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp>

    It is important that you follow the instructions from
    Microsoft and apply appropriate patches to all servers
    running Microsoft Windows.

    As the worm attempts to find new systems to infect it can
    cause DCE to fail.  The HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux systems
    running DCE are not infected by the worm.  DCE is impacted as
    as side effect of the network traffic generated by the worm.

    The impact is that critical DCE daemons can abort.  These
    daemons and the OpenView software which depends on them
    would need to be restarted manually.

    This problem has been reported by CERT/cc:

        <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/377804>

     CERT/cc reports that the vulnerability can be
     triggered by attempts to exploit Microsoft RPC
     vulnerabilities:

        <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/568148>
        <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/326746>

 B. Recommended solution

    For Solaris and Linux please contact your support HP
    representative for information concerning a preliminary fix.
    Customers without a support contact should write to
    security-alert@hp.com for information.

    For systems running Microsoft Windows please refer to:

    <http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp>

    For HP-UX systems please refer to HPSBUX0308-273.

 C. To subscribe to automatically receive future NEW HP Security
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    To -subscribe- to future HP Security Bulletins or other
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    NOTE: Using your itrc account security bulletins can be
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    To -gain access- to the Security Patch Matrix, select
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    The Security Patch Check tool can verify that a security
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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
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    ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/export/patches/hp-ux_patch_matrix/

    On the "Support Information Digest Main" page:
    click on the "HP Security Bulletin Archive".

    The PGP key used to sign this bulletin is available from
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       2D2A7D59
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 D. To report new security vulnerabilities, send email to

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    Please encrypt any exploit information using the
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(c)Copyright 2003 Hewlett-Packard Company
Hewlett-Packard Company shall not be liable for technical or
editorial errors or omissions contained herein. The information
in this document is subject to change without notice.
Hewlett-Packard Company and the names of HP products referenced
herein are trademarks and/or service marks of Hewlett-Packard
Company.  Other product and company names mentioned herein may be
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