From agent99@sgi.com Tue Jun 3 21:56:50 2003 From: SGI Security Coordinator To: agent99@sgi.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.announce, comp.security.unix, comp.sys.sgi.admin, comp.security.announce Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:02:04 -0700 Subject: Some Network Drivers May Leak Data on IRIX -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SGI Security Advisory Title: Some Network Drivers May Leak Data Number : 20030601-01-A Date : June 2, 2003 Reference: CERT Vulnerability Note VU#412115 Reference: CVE CAN-2003-0001 Reference: SGI BUG 878043 ______________________________________________________________________________ SGI provides this information freely to the SGI user community for its consideration, interpretation, implementation and use. SGI recommends that this information be acted upon as soon as possible. SGI provides the information in this Security Advisory on an "AS-IS" basis only, and disclaims all warranties with respect thereto, express, implied or otherwise, including, without limitation, any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall SGI be liable for any loss of profits, loss of business, loss of data or for any indirect, special, exemplary, incidental or consequential damages of any kind arising from your use of, failure to use or improper use of any of the instructions or information in this Security Advisory. ______________________________________________________________________________ SGI acknowledges the network device driver vulnerability reported by AtStake and is currently investigating: http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/atstake_etherleak_report.pdf http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/412115 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0001 Our initial investigation shows that our egXX and tgXX gigabit cards and efXX interfaces in Origins and Octanes don't appear to be vulnerable. No further information is available at this time. As further information becomes available, additional advisories will be issued. 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