SUMMARY: ToolTalk security hole

From: Harry Hahn <h3_at_ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:19:13 -0700

Thanks to all those who replied. I should've mentioned the CERT advisory in
my original post so I'll do so here for those of you who haven't seen it
yet:

        <http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-98.11.tooltalk.html>

The advisory doesn't mention Digital Unix specifically but a previous post
to this list from a Compaq/Digital rep indicated DU was also vulnerable.

As some of the respondents suggested, I killed rpc.ttdbserverd and
commented out the relevant line in inetd.conf as an interim quick fix but
very shortly thereafter got a phone call that the CDE file manager was
broken- sure enough, re-enabling it "fixed" file manager.

The good news is that Compaq/Digital finally got back to me with the patch.
Based on some of the info I read, I expected something truly ugly but it
was simply 3 replacement binaries- easy enough.

Thanks again to all those who responded.

-Harry

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Harry Hahn - h3_at_ucla.edu
Research and Instruction Biocomputer Services - UCLA
Received on Wed Oct 14 1998 - 18:20:14 NZDT

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