TITLE: SSRT4718- HP Tru64 UNIX - NTP Integer Overflow Copyright (c) Hewlett-Packard Company 2004. All rights reserved. PRODUCT: HP Tru64 UNIX [R] 4.0F SOURCE: Hewlett-Packard Company ECO INFORMATION: ECO Name: DUXKIT0022775-V40FB22-ES-20040629 ECO Kit Approximate Size: 3.53MB Kit Applies To: HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0F PK8 (BL22) ECO Kit CHECKSUMS: /usr/bin/sum results: 11507 3610 /usr/bin/cksum results: 2164847580 3696640 MD5 results: 8bc437ce65689a94d9c40557c9541e11 SHA1 results: 746243a1a94f9a8c9dbe780189b6713042adc603 ECO KIT SUMMARY: A dupatch-based, Early Release Patch kit exists for HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0F that contains solutions to the following problem(s): The NTP (Network Time Protocol) package provided with HP Tru64 UNIX contains an integer overflow. The overflow may cause clients with clocks set too far in the past to receive an incorrect date/time offset from the ntp server, resulting in an incorrect date/time on the client. SSRT4718 - NTP (Severity - High) Cross References: CERT VU#584606 See http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/584606 for details. HP has corrected the integer overflow by releasing this Early Release Patch. The Patch Kit Installation Instructions and the Patch Summary and Release Notes documents provide patch kit installation and removal instructions and a summary of each patch. Please read these documents prior to installing patches on your system. INSTALLATION NOTES: 1) Install this kit with the dupatch utility that is included in the patch kit. You may need to baseline your system if you have manually changed system files on your system. The dupatch utility provides the baselining capability. 2) The patch in this ERP kit does not have any file intersections with any other ERP available at this time for this product version. 3) This ERP kit will NOT install over any Customer Specific Patches (CSPs) which have file intersections with this ERP kit. Contact your normal Service Provider for assistance if the installation of this ERP kit is blocked by any of your installed CSPs. INSTALLATION PREREQUISITES: You must have installed HP Tru64 UNIX 4.0F PK8 (BL22) prior to installing this Early Release Patch Kit. SUPERSEDE INFORMATION: None KNOWN PROBLEMS WITH THE PATCH KIT: None. RELEASE NOTES FOR DUXKIT0022775-V40FB22-ES-20040629: [R] UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company 2004. All Rights reserved. This software is proprietary to and embodies the confidential technology of Hewlett-Packard Company. Possession, use, or copying of this software and media is authorized only pursuant to a valid written license from Hewlett-Packard or an authorized sublicensor. Release Notes This document summarizes the contents and special instructions for the Digital UNIX V4.0F patches contained in this kit. For information about installing or removing patches, baselining, and general patch management, see the Patch Kit Installation Instructions document. 1 Release Notes This Early Release Patch Kit Distribution contains: - fixes that resolve the problem(s) reported in: o SSRT4718 * for Digital UNIX V4.0F DUV40FB22AS0008-20030730.tar (BL22) This kit includes a patch which requires system reboot. The patches in this kit are being released early for general customer use. Refer to the Release Notes for a summary of each patch and installation prerequisites. Patches in this kit are installed by running dupatch from the directory in which the kit was untarred. For example, as root on the target system: > mkdir -p /tmp/CSPkit1 > cd /tmp/CSPkit1 > > tar -xpvf DUV40D13-C0044900-1285-20000328.tar > cd patch_kit > ./dupatch 2 Special Instructions There are no special instructions for Digital UNIX V4.0F Patch C1070.01 3 Summary of CSPatches contained in this kit Digital UNIX V4.0F PatchId Summary Of Fix ---------------------------------------- C1070.01 Fix for SSRT4718, NTP 4 Additional information from Engineering None 5 Affected system files This patch delivers the following files: Digital UNIX V4.0F Patch C1070.01 ./usr/bin/ntpq CHECKSUM: 49991 136 SUBSET: OSFCLINET440 ./usr/bin/xntpdc CHECKSUM: 04625 128 SUBSET: OSFCLINET440 ./usr/sbin/ntpdate CHECKSUM: 47237 80 SUBSET: OSFCLINET440 ./usr/sbin/ntptrace CHECKSUM: 05627 56 SUBSET: OSFCLINET440 ./usr/sbin/xntpd CHECKSUM: 31438 392 SUBSET: OSFCLINET440 This ECO has not been through an exhaustive field test process. Due to the experimental stage of this ECO/workaround, Hewlett-Packard makes no representations regarding its use or performance. The customer shall have the sole responsibility for adequate protection and back-up data used in conjunction with this ECO/workaround.