Overview

The utility pcltotiff is installed with insecure permissions on some Hewlett Packard systems.

Description

The HP utility pcltotiff is installed with sgid bin permissions in order to read files in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/. This gives more permissions to pcltotiff than are required. For more information, see HP Security Bulletin HPSBUX0104-149.

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Impact

The complete impact of this vulnerability is not yet known. Hewlett Packard lists the impact as “Denial of service,” but it is unclear why.

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Solution

Change the permissions on the file as described in HP bulletin.

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Updated: August 17, 2001

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Digest Name: daily security bulletins digest Created: Tue Apr 24 3:00:03 PDT 2001
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HPSBUX0104-149 Sec. Vulnerability in pcltotiff
The documents are listed below.

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Document ID: HPSBUX0104-149 Date Loaded: 20010423 Title: Sec. Vulnerability in pcltotiff
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HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY SECURITY ADVISORY #0149, 19 April 2001

The information in the following Security Advisory should be acted upon
as soon as possible. Hewlett-Packard Company will not be liable for any
consequences to any customer resulting from customer’s failure to fully
implement instructions in this Security Advisory as soon as possible.
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PROBLEM: /opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff has unsafe permissions.
PLATFORM: HP9000 Series 700/800 running HP-UX releases 10.01,
10.10, 10.20, 10.26
DAMAGE: Denial of service.
SOLUTION: Change the permissions on /opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff.
AVAILABILITY: This advisory will be upgraded to a bulletin when patches
are available.
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I.
A. Background
/opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff is in group bin with set group id
permissions. This is necessary to allow pcltotiff to read files
in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/.
B. Fixing the problem
Remove the set group id permissions from pcltotiff and
allow read access to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/.
C. Recommended solution
/sbin/chmod 555 /opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff
/sbin/chmod o+r /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/*
To avoid swverify errors:
#!/sbin/sh
/usr/sbin/swmodify -x files=‘/opt/sharedprint/bin/pcltotiff’ \
SharedPrint.SHPRNT-PCL
for i in /sbin/ls /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces
do
/usr/bin/swmodify \
-x files=‘/usr/lib/X11/fonts/ifo.st/typefaces/$i’ \
X11.X11-FONTSRV
done
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Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.

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References

<http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2646&gt;

Acknowledgements

This document was written by Shawn V. Hernan.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2001-0488
Severity Metric:	2.53 Date Public: