Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:18:49 +1000 (EST)
From: (Paul Szabo) <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
Subject: Compaq mount patch broken
I have installed the latest HP/Compaq Tru64 patches
T64V51B19-C0136901-15143-ES-20020817.tar
Beware of the /sbin/mount in patch OSFPATC0136901510 within: using
'mount -a' kills any local mountd with log message:
Sep 3 06:19:01 rome mountd[228]: aborting: received a User defined signal 1
Note that mountd is started in /sbin/rc3.d/S19nfs but then
/sbin/rc3.d/S20nfsmount uses '/sbin/mount -a -v -t nfs'.
You may want to back out of that patch for now...
(The above is for Tru64 V5.1, the only version I have around.)
I have reported this to Compaq (but expect no speedy resolution). I am
puzzled: why patch /sbin/mount or /usr/bin/csh if they are not setuid?
Cheers,
Paul Szabo - psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia
