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Digest Name:  daily security bulletins digest
    Created:  Fri Apr 27  3:00:02 PDT 2001

Table of Contents:

Document ID      Title
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HPSBUX0104-149   Sec. Vulnerability in pcltotiff (rev.01)

The documents are listed below.
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Document ID:  HPSBUX0104-149
Date Loaded:  20010426
      Title:  Sec. Vulnerability in pcltotiff (rev.01)

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**REVISED01**HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY ADVISORY #0149, 19 April '01
Last revised: 26 April 2001
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The information in the following Security Advisory should be acted upon
as soon as possible.  Hewlett-Packard Company will not be liable for any
consequences to any customer resulting from customer's failure to fully
implement instructions in this Security Advisory as soon as possible.

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PROBLEM:   /opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff has unsafe permissions.

PLATFORM:  HP9000 Series 700/800 running HP-UX releases 10.01,
           10.10, 10.20, and 10.26.

DAMAGE:    Denial of service.

SOLUTION:  Change the permissions on /opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff.

AVAILABILITY:  A bulletin will be issued when patches are available.
CHANGE SUMMARY: Typographical error corrections in script.
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I.
   A. Background

      /opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff is in group bin with set group id
      permissions.  This is necessary to allow pcltotiff to read files
      in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/.

   B. Fixing the problem

      Remove the set group id permissions from pcltotiff and
      allow read access to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/.

   C. Recommended solution

      /sbin/chmod 555 /opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff
      /sbin/chmod o+r /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/*

      To avoid swverify errors:
**REVISED 01:
      #!/sbin/sh
      /usr/sbin/swmodify -x files='/opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff' \
        SharedPrint.SHPRNT-PCL

       for i in `/sbin/ls /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces`
       do
        /usr/sbin/swmodify \
          -x files="/usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/$i" \
          X11.X11-FONTSRV
      done
**END REVISION 01

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