Re: IBM AIX Packet Filter module (followup)

[brummie () SECURE I1 NET (Brumbles)]

Thank you to all respondants re the above, especially Troy from IBM who
has raised a defect, responded very quickly and has offered a temporary
patch, definatly an excellent responce. The problem seems to be
with the declaration of the port being short rather than unsigned short.
Negative values for -P do not work as a few people suggested.

Security bugs with AIX should be addressed to
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This, in the experience of myself and others who replied is much faster
method of getting security related problems fixed.

Thanks again,
Brum

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Troy A. Bollinger wrote:

> Quoting Brumbles (brummie () SECURE I1 NET):
> > I have tried unsuccessfully to get any response from IBM on the following,
> > apparently unless you have a support contract you cant report bugs..
> > (well.. you can.. "Program Services", but thats a link to /dev/null
> > apparently.)
>
> You can always send new AIX vulnerabilities to the
> security-alert () austin ibm com mail address.
>
> > AixLevel AIX4.3.2
> > Packet Filtering Module, in particular the command genfilt does not allow
> > the addition of filters with port numbers greater than 32767
>
> I've opened defect 289790 to address this.  It appears to be caused by
> using a "short" instead of an "unsigned short" for the port number.
>
> --
> Troy Bollinger                            troy () austin ibm com
> AIX Security Development        security-alert () austin ibm com
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