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Digest Name:  daily security bulletins digest
    Created:  Tue Oct 23  3:00:03 PDT 2001

Table of Contents:

Document ID      Title
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HPSBUX0110-174   Sec. Vulnerability in JRE
HPSBTL0110-001   Sec. Vulnerability in fs protection

The documents are listed below.
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Document ID:  HPSBUX0110-174
Date Loaded:  20011022
      Title:  Sec. Vulnerability in JRE

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    HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: #0174,
    Originally issued:  22 October 2001
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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
ailure to fully implement instructions in this Security Bulletin as
soon as possible.

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ISSUE:   Sun Microsystems discovered a potential security issue
         in the Java Runtime Environment.  The issue poses a
         possible security risk by allowing malicious Java code
         to access the system clipboard under certain circumstances.

PLATFORM:  HP9000 Series 700/800 running HP-UX releases 10.20 and
           11.x only.  This security bulletin applies to Java
           on HP-UX.  It does not cover software shipped on Linux
           or Windows/NT.

POSSIBLE RESULT: Contents of system clipboard is accessed improperly.

MANUAL ACTIONS: Determine what Java version you have, see below.

SOLUTION:  Install the latest Java releases, as described below.

AVAILABILITY: These fixed releases are on www.hp.com/go/java now.
              They are not available from itrc.hp.com
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   A. Background

   A vulnerability in certain versions of the Java(TM) Runtime
   Environment may allow malicious Java code to access the system
   clipboard under certain circumstances.

   There are no known attacks reported based on this vulnerability
   to the best of Sun's knowledge.

   B. Fixing the problem

     Obtain and install the latest releases of the Java products.
     For JDK/JRE 1.2.2 and JDK/JRE 1.3.x based releases go to
              www.hp.com/go/java.
     Section C. 1.) below will guide you in determining your
     installed Java version on HP-UX.

   C. Recommended solution

         JDK and JRE 1.2.2.10 or higher for HP-UX 11.x.
         JDK and JRE 1.3.0.02 or higher for HP-UX 11.x.
         JDK and JRE 1.3.1.01 or higher for HP-UX 11.x.

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 1.) HP-UX: Determining Java version information for JDK, JRE, & JPI
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There are two mechanisms to determine which versions of the Java
JDK/SDK (developer kit), JRE (runtime), or JPI (Java Plugin for
Netscape) you have installed.

First, you can use the following command to list the bundle revisions
for any installed Java products:

      /usr/sbin/swlist -l bundle | grep -i java

Second, you can ask Java to identify itself by executing the
following:

      <path>/bin/java -version

where path is typically

      /opt/java - for Java 1.1
      /opt/java1.2 - for Java 1.2
      /opt/java1.3 - for Java 1.3

but may be an alternate location as specified during setup.

The plugin (JPI) is installed in user's home directories, so
you will need to check its version using the following.

For Java 1.2:

      $HOME/.netscape/java/bin/java -version

For Java 1.1, you must use:

      what $HOME/.netscape/java/bin/PA_RISC/green_threads/jre

NOTE: Do not rely on Netscape's Help/About_Plug-ins menu to find the
version number of the Plugin, because in some cases the version
number is incorrect.

    a.) Unplugging the Plugin (Since the Plugin is manually
        installed into Netscape, it must be manually removed as well.)

    If you have a plugin that you wish to remove because it has a
    security issue, in addition to doing a swremove of the product
    you must also do the following for Java 1.1 and Java 1.2:

    rm -f $HOME/.netscape/plugins/javaplugin.sl
    rm -rf $HOME/.netscape/java

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Document ID:  HPSBTL0110-001
Date Loaded:  20011022
      Title:  Sec. Vulnerability in fs protection

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    HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY BULLETIN: #001
    Originally issued: 23 October '01
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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:   File system protection does not work in all cases.

PLATFORM:  Any system running HP Secure OS software for Linux Release
           1.0

DAMAGE:    Under certain conditions, users can have privileges on
           some files contrary to restrictions specified in
           file-system protection rules.

SOLUTION:  Apply the appropriate patch (see section B below).

MANUAL ACTIONS: None

AVAILABILITY:   These patches are available now.

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A. Background

    Hewlett-Packard Company has discovered a vulnerability
    in the file-system protection subsystem of its Secure OS
    Software for Linux.  It is possible too that users may have
    unauthorized privileges on files which have had protection
    rules specified on them.

B. Fixing the problem

    Apply one of the following patches (depending upon the processor
    architecture on the installed system):

              Architecture    Patch ID
              ------------    --------
              i586            HPTL_00001
              i686-UNP        HPTL_00002
              i686-SMP        HPTL_00003

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    Please encrypt any exploit information using the
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