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             ESB-2000.017 -- HP SECURITY BULLETIN HPSBUX0001-110
                  Security Vulnerability with PMTU strategy
                               25 January 2000

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Hewlett-Packard has released the following bulletin concerning a
vulnerability in HP-UX release 10.30 and 11.00 only.
This vulnerability may be exploited to cause the affected system to flood
another system with IP packets which may result in a denial of service.


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Document ID:  HPSBUX0001-110
Date Loaded:  20000123
      Title:  Security Vulnerability with PMTU strategy

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    HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY ADVISORY: #00110, 24 Jan 2000
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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.

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PROBLEM:  An HP-UX 10.30/11.00 system can be used as an IP traffic
          amplifier.  Small amounts of inbound traffic can result in
          larger amounts of outbound traffic.

PLATFORM: HP-UX release 10.30 and 11.00 only.

DAMAGE:   Depending upon the amount and nature of inbound traffic, an
          HP-UX 10.30/11.00 system can be used to flood a target system
          with IP packets which could result in a denial of service.

SOLUTION: Set the NDD parameter ip_pmtu_strategy to 1.

AVAILABILITY: This capability is already available.

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I.
   A. Background
      HP provides a proprietary method for determining PMTU.  When
      traffic needs to be routed to a destination for which the optimum
      MTU has not been determined, ICMP packets are used to discover
      the MTU for that path while data traffic is shipped in parallel.
      This is the default strategy for determining PMTU.

   B. Recommended solution
      Reference ndd manpage (1M), /etc/rc.config.d/nddconf

      To ensure that this parameter is set each time the system
      is booted, add the following lines to /etc/rc.config.d/nddconf

      TRANSPORT_NAME[<index>]=ip
      NDD_NAME[<index>]=ip_pmtu_strategy
      NDD_VALUE[<index>]=1

      The value of <index> is an integer from 0 to 99.  The first
      parameter specified in the file should use an <index> of
      0, the second an <index> of 1, and so on.

      Once these changes have been made, execute the following
      command:

      /usr/bin/ndd -c

      This sets all of the options specified in the file
      /etc/rc.config.d/nddconf.

      To verify that the parameter is set correctly, use the following
      command.
                /usr/bin/ndd -get /dev/ip ip_pmtu_strategy

      This should report a value of 1.

      Another way to  change the ip_pmtu_strategy parameter on a running
      system is to use the following NDD command:

                /usr/bin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_pmtu_strategy 1

      This setting will only last until the system is rebooted
      at which point the value of the parameter will be determined by the
      default value of 2 or whatever value is set in
      /etc/rc.config.d/nddconf

   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://us-support.external.hp.com
               (for US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, & Latin-America)
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      Under the Maintenance and Support Menu (Electronic Support Center):
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      To -review- bulletins already released
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      Login with your user ID and password (or register for one).
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      On the "Support Information Digest Main" page:
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      Once in the archive the third link is to our current Security
      Patch Matrix.  Updated daily, this matrix categorizes security
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      The security patch matrix is also available via anonymous ftp:

      us-ffs.external.hp.com
      ~ftp/export/patches/hp-ux_patch_matrix

    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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