OSF-AXP SSRT0358_OSF1032C Digital OSF/1 V2.0 - 3.2C dxconsole ECO Summary

 
Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1996.
All rights reserved.

PRODUCT:    Digital OSF/1, Version 2.0 through 3.2C

SOURCE:     Digital Equipment Corporation

ECO INFORMATION:

     ECO Kit Name:  SSRT0358_OSF1032C
     ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit:  None
     ECO Kit Approximate Size:  ssrt0358_osf1032C.tar_Z 76571 Bytes

     System Reboot Necessary:  Yes 


ECO KIT SUMMARY:

An ECO kit exists for Digital OSF/1 V2.0 - 3.2C. This kit addresses the 
following problem: 

       A potential security vulnerability has been identified with
       dxconsole for OSF/1. This potential vulnerability may allow 
       users to gain unauthorized privileges. This kit, containing 
       new binaries that corrects this problem.


INSTALLATION NOTES:

This patch is a compressed tar image containing replacement module(s) for
dxconsole. You will want to save the current versions of dxconsole before
installing the new, patched version(s).

The patches are for V2.*-*, V3.0, V3.0b, V3.2, V3.2b, V3.2c 

Once uncompressed the following files are available:

	README.SSRT0358_OSF1032C
	COVER.SSRT0358_OSF1032C
	dxconsole.v32
	dxconsole.v32b
	dxconsole.v32c
	dxconsole.v20
	dxconsole.v30b
	dxconsole.v30

To install do the following:
 # cd patches
 # zcat SSRT0358_OSF1032C.tar.Z | tar xvf -
 # cd /usr/bin/X11
 # cp /patches/{appropriate version} dxconsole.new
 # chown root:bin dxconsole.new
 # chmod 4755 dxconsole.new
 # ln dxconsole dxconsole.orig
 # mv dxconsole.new dxconsole
 # ln xconsole xconsole.orig
 # ln -f dxconsole xconsole

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ssrt0358_osf1032c.CVRLET_TXT
ssrt0358_osf1032c.tar_z