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HP-UX Unspecified CDE Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA8970
Release Date: 2003-06-09
Last Update: 2005-03-14
Popularity: 7,261 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:HP-UX 10.x
HP-UX 11.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-1764


Description:
HP has reported several vulnerabilities in HP-UX 10 and 11, which according to the advisory can be exploited to gain unauthorised privileged access to a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors in:
- libDtHelp (SSRT2373)
- libDtSvc (SSRT2374)
- dtprintinfo (SSRT2405)
- dtsession (SSRT2415)

Solution:
Install the relevant patches:

11.00 - PHSS_28675
11.00 - PHSS_28678
11.04 - PHSS_29214
11.11 - PHSS_28676
11.11 - PHSS_28677
11.11 - PHSS_28679
11.22 - PHSS_28682
11.22 - PHSS_28683

For version 10 download 1020_CDE_DEPOT.depot.gz from:
ftp://cde:cde@hprc.external.hp.com/
And install the depot.

Changelog:
2004-03-24: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.
2005-03-14: Added CVE reference.

Other References:
US-CERT VU#406406:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/406406


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