________________________________________________________________ THE COMPUTER INCIDENT ADVISORY CAPABILITY CIAC ADVISORY NOTICE ________________________________________________________________ Information about a new vulnerability in the SUN rcp utility November 1, 1989, 1615 PST Number A-5 CIAC has learned of a new vulnerability in the SunOS 4.0.x rcp utility (Sun Bug Report number 1017314). This is a different vulnerability from the rcp vulnerability described in the CIAC bulletin of August 21, 1989. This new vulnerability can be exploited by any other trusted host listed in /etc/hosts.equiv or /.rhosts. This hole can be ex- ploited by anyone running NFS (Network File System), and in par- ticular by someone who is using a PC to run PC/NFS. This new rcp hole affects only SunOS 4.0.x systems; 3.5 systems are not affected. Sun Microsystems will distrubute a patch for this vulnerability when version SunOS 4.1 is released. In the meantime, CIAC recom- mends that you use the following workaround: Change the 'nobody'/etc/passwd file entry from nobody:*:-2:-2::/: to nobody:*:65534:65534:Mismatched NFS ID's:/: If you have already used another workaround for this vulnerability, please be advised that other workarounds may cause unexpected sys- tem behavior. Several incorrect workarounds have already been dis- tributed by organizations outside of DOE. If you need further information about this problem, please contact: Ana Maria De Alvare', (415) 422-7007 or FTS 532-7007 or (415) 422-8193 or FTS 532-8193 or send electronic mail to: ciac@tiger.llnl.gov CIAC FAX: (415) 422-4294 or FTS 532-4294 P.S.--CIAC also advises that if you run SunOS 4.0.3, you should re- move the + in the /etc/hosts.equiv file unless you are running YP. (This information is not related to any rcp vulnerability.) This notice has been sent to the following persons: Alexander, D. (LANL) Allender, C. (Stone & Webster) Baker, A. 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