[ I no involvement with SATAN or other daemons - lance ]
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From: lionel_at_quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)
Date: 11 Apr 1995 15:00:17 GMT
Subject: Re: SATAN for AXP?
[Attached is Digital's official response regarding SATAN - FYI]
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DEC-95-332A DATE: 07.APR.1995
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SOURCE: Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Software Security Response Team &
Digital Firewall Engineering
COMPONENT: SATAN (or SANTA) Security Analysis U*IX Networks
Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN)
Dear Valued Digital Customer,
Subj: ULTRIX, OpenVMS (UCX), DEC OSF/1 and Digital's Firewall Product
References:
CERT Advisory CA-95:06 dated 3 April 1995
CIAC Advisory F-20 dated 5 April 1995
Available via the Internet, and subsequent news articles published.
DESCRIPTION:
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SATAN is a testing and reporting tool that collects a variety of
information about networked hosts. SATAN gathers information about
specified hosts and networks by examining network services (for example,
finger, NFS, NIS, and ftp). In addition to reporting potential
vulnerabilities, SATAN gathers general network information (network
topology, network services run, types of hardware and software being used
on the network).
The advisories, the documentation contained in the SATAN package, or the
related news stories, do not disclose any previously unknown computer
system security vulnerabilities and does not pose a threat to Digital
Equipment Operating Systems properly maintained (with a Security
Baseline), with the latest software releases and with subsequent release
patches installed. The reported methods of probing have been known for a
number of years and corrected through ECO (patch release) and subsequent
releases of the operating systems.
These SATAN probes may be monitored by a number of techniques, only
some of which are addressed in the CERT Advisory and subsequent articles.
A more complete analysis of the general problem has been conducted
by firewall experts in Digital's Palo Alto and Galway, Ireland,
research labs and product groups. No vulnerabilities where discovered
in properly configured environments.
For information to monitor your site for SATAN probes, using
the proper combination of Digital products, configured in the optimal
manner please contact your normal Digital support channel.
Digital Equipment Corporation does not intend to distribute Satan nor does
it plan any an advisory containing kit location, testing results or
redistribution of any advisories containing that information.
Digital Equipment Corporation recommends that this Software be treated
with all the due care necessary based on the current publicly available
information or advisories and make an informed decision prior to any
installation, or use, within their environment and to use all available
security monitoring techniques to guard against a potential malicious
probe of SATAN to their environment.
GENERAL INFORMATION
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SATAN was designed as a security tool for system and network
administrators for security analysis. However, given its potential wide
distribution, ease of use, and ability to scan remote networks, SATAN is
also likely to be used to locate vulnerable hosts for malicious reasons.
It is also possible that sites running SATAN for a legitimate purpose will
accidentally scan your systems/environment via SATAN's exploratory mode.
As always, Digital recommends that you regularly review your system
management and security procedures. Digital will continue to review
and enhance security features, and work with our customers to further
improve the integrity of their systems.
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