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Vigil@nce: HP-UX, denial of service of DCE
December 2008 by Vigil@nce
SYNTHESIS
A network attacker can create a denial of service in DCE.
Gravity: 2/4
Consequences: denial of service of service
Provenance: intranet client
Means of attack: no proof of concept, no attack
Ability of attacker: expert (4/4)
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5)
Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)
Creation date: 10/12/2008
IMPACTED PRODUCTS
– Hewlett-Packard HP-UX
DESCRIPTION
The OSF DCE (Distributed Computing Environment from OSF/OpenGroup) environment provides various components:
– DCE Threads
– RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
– etc.
Developers can use these basic features to create their programs.
A network attacker can use malicious queries in order to stop
following daemons:
– cdsd : CDS Server
– dced : DCE Host daemon
– rpcd : RPC Host daemon
– secd : DCE Security Server
Technical details are unknown.
A network attacker can therefore create a denial of service in DCE.
CHARACTERISTICS
Identifiers: BID-32754, c01623009, CVE-2008-4418, HPSBUX02393,
SSRT080057, VIGILANCE-VUL-8316
