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Re: IBM AIX Packet Filter module (followup)
From: brummie () SECURE I1 NET (Brumbles)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:23:34 -0500
Thank you to all respondants re the above, especially Troy from IBM who has raised a defect, responded very quickly and has offered a temporary patch, definatly an excellent responce. The problem seems to be with the declaration of the port being short rather than unsigned short. Negative values for -P do not work as a few people suggested. Security bugs with AIX should be addressed to security-alert () austin ibm com This, in the experience of myself and others who replied is much faster method of getting security related problems fixed. Thanks again, Brum On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Troy A. Bollinger wrote:
Quoting Brumbles (brummie () SECURE I1 NET):I have tried unsuccessfully to get any response from IBM on the following, apparently unless you have a support contract you cant report bugs.. (well.. you can.. "Program Services", but thats a link to /dev/null apparently.)You can always send new AIX vulnerabilities to the security-alert () austin ibm com mail address.AixLevel AIX4.3.2 Packet Filtering Module, in particular the command genfilt does not allow the addition of filters with port numbers greater than 32767I've opened defect 289790 to address this. It appears to be caused by using a "short" instead of an "unsigned short" for the port number. -- Troy Bollinger troy () austin ibm com AIX Security Development security-alert () austin ibm com PGP keyid: 1024/0xB7783129 Troy's opinions are not IBM policy
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