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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2004.0250 -- SGI Security Advisory Some Network Drivers May Leak Data 05 April 2004 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: Network Drivers Publisher: SGI Operating System: IRIX CVE Names: CAN-2003-0001 Ref: AU-2003.001 ESB-2003.0391 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SGI Security Advisory Title : Some Network Drivers May Leak Data Number : 20030601-01-I Date : April 2, 2004 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ - - -------------- - - --- Update --- - - -------------- This is an update to SGI Security Advisory 20030601-01-A: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20030601-01-A AtStake and CERT reported a network device driver vulnerability called EtherLeak: 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 The gXX and tgXX gigabit network interfaces, and efXX network interface on SGI systems are not vulnerable to this issue. 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