TITLE:  SSRT3653 - HP Tru64 UNIX BIND V8 Potential Security Vulnerability

Copyright (c) Hewlett-Packard Company 2003.  All rights reserved.


PRODUCT:    HP Tru64 UNIX [R] 5.1B
SOURCE:     Hewlett-Packard Company

ECO INFORMATION:

     ECO Name:  T64KIT0020665-V51BB22-ES-20031113
     ECO Kit Approximate Size:  4.35MB 
     Kit Applies To:  HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1B PK2 (BL22)

     ECO Kit CHECKSUMS:
	/usr/bin/sum results:  
	54882   4450

	/usr/bin/cksum results: 
	1267096902 4556800

	MD5 results:   
	5486e9b1888034c4592b3b1cb5ca9356

	SHA1 results:
	be318faca8dc39d8651d00d1053c2e00cb3124ce


ECO KIT SUMMARY:

A dupatch-based, Early Release Patch kit exists for HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1B that
contains solutions to the following problem(s):

A potential security vulnerability has been identified in the 
HP Tru64 UNIX BIND version 8 code that could result in a local 
or remotely exploited Denial of Service (DoS).

HP has corrected the following potential security vulnerability:

     SSRT3653 - BIND v8      (Severity - High)

Reference: CERT VU#734644 

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.

The patches in this ERP kit is scheduled to be available in the 
next mainstream patch kit - HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1B Patch Kit 4.


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 5.1B PK2 (BL22) prior to installing 
this Early Release Patch Kit.


KNOWN PROBLEMS WITH THE PATCH KIT:

None.


RELEASE NOTES FOR T64KIT0020665-V51BB22-ES-20031113:


			 Release Notes

     This document summarizes the contents and special instructions for the 
     Tru64 UNIX V5.1B 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 SSRT3653 
             * for Tru64 UNIX V5.1B T64V51BB22AS0002-20030415.tar (BL22)

 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
	> <copy the kit to /tmp/CSPkit1>
	> tar -xpvf DUV40D13-C0044900-1285-20000328.tar
	> cd patch_kit
	> ./dupatch

2 Special Instructions

There are no special instructions for Tru64 UNIX V5.1B Patch C386.00


3 Summary of CSPatches contained in this kit


Tru64 UNIX V5.1B

PatchId			Summary Of Fix
----------------------------------------
C386.00			Fix for SSRT3653, BIND v8


4 Additional information from Engineering


None



5 Affected system files
This patch delivers the following files:

Tru64 UNIX V5.1B
	Patch C386.00
		./sbin/named
			CHECKSUM:	49834 903
			SUBSET:	OSFINET540
		./usr/bin/nslookup
			CHECKSUM:	56258 563
			SUBSET:	OSFCLINET540
		./usr/sbin/named
			CHECKSUM:	21535 1048
			SUBSET:	OSFINET540



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       customer shall have the sole responsibility for adequate protection
       and back-up data used in conjunction with this ECO/workaround.