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Subject: Security Vulnerability in SAM remote admin
Date: 8 Aug 1996 21:35:49 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Cupertino Site
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HEWLETT-PACKARD SECURITY BULLETIN: #HPSBUX9607-034, 22 July 1996
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The information in the following Security Bulletin should be acted upon
as soon as possible. Hewlett Packard will not be liable for any
consequences to any customer resulting from customer's failure to fully
implement instructions in this Security Bulletin as soon as possible.
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PROBLEM: Vulnerabilities in SAM remote administration.
PLATFORM: HP 9000/300/400/700 and 800 systems running any currently
supported version of HP-UX 9.X and 10.X.
DAMAGE: The security of the enterprise and its applications could
be compromised.
SOLUTION: Follow the procedure below.
AVAILABILITY: Not applicable
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I. Mailing list discussions
A. Background
It has recently come to the attention of Hewlett-Packard that
remote administration of cluster nodes via SAM (System
Administration Manager) is done with a now widely known
password. There is a default account password used in the
currently shipping SAM binary. That user gets created via rsh
on the remote machine.
B. Recommended workaround
Hewlett-Packard strongly recommends that administrators concerned
with the security of their enterprise either:
a) do not configure remote administration, or
b) replace that existing password field in /etc/passwd with an
asterisk (*)
Hewlett-Packard is working to deliver new scheme in a future
release of the SAM product.
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