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Secunia Advisory SA9432

HP-UX update for rpc.mountd
Secunia Advisory SA9432
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Release Date 2003-08-04
Last Update 2004-01-21
   
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Exposure of system information
Where From local network
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
HP-UX 11.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-1999-1225 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
HP has issued patches for HP-UX. These fix an old vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of certain system information.

The vulnerability is caused due to the rpc.mountd service returning various replies depending on whether a requested file exists or not. This can be exploited to enumerate files present on the system by attempting to mount them and looking at the returned error messages.

Solution
Install patches:
Further details available in Customer Area

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=HPSBUX0308-272

Deep Links
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Subject: HP-UX update for rpc.mountd
 
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