Title: Multiple Vendor connect() Denial of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Certain versions of AIX and HP/UX contained a bug in the way the OS handled the connect system call. The connect call is used to initiate a connection on a socket. Because of the flaw in the handling code under AIX certain versions will reboot when given two connects, one to a fixed port (a number of different ports were found to trigger this behaviour) and then another random port connection immediately thereafter.
Affected Products:
- HP HP-UX 10.1.0 0
- HP HP-UX 10.20.0
- HP HP-UX 9.5.0
- IBM AIX 4.1.0
- IBM AIX 4.1.1
- IBM AIX 4.1.2
- IBM AIX 4.1.3
- IBM AIX 4.1.4
- IBM AIX 4.1.5
References:
- Hewlett Packard: HP Electronic Support Center for Europe
- Hewlett Packard: HP Electronic Support Center for US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, & Latin-America
- IBM: IBM Support Databases
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