HP Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster Server Version 5.1B-5 Patch Summary and Release Notes (March 2009)

• Resolves a problem that can cause rsh processes hang.
• Corrects a problem where the telnet command causes unnecessary delays when
an IP address is supplied as a command-line argument.
• Corrects a problem with the nslookup utility that results in an unexpected
termination in certain situations.
• Fixes the behavior of rpc.rquotad in a cluster.
• Allows rcp to correctly interpret file names that contains rcp special characters
such as the at (@) sign and colon (:).
• Fixes a problem with the IPv6 neighbor discovery daemon, which under certain
circumstances, can cause bad information to be written to a DNS database causing
failures on subsequent database reloads.
• Corrects several minor problems with IPv6 subsystem related to neighbor discovery
specification.
• Corrects a problem with routed not detecting all the interfaces on system that
contains more than 100 interfaces.
• Updates Mobile IPv6 code to be compliant with the latest RFC.
• Provides support for monitoring disk I/O rate using the pmgrd daemon.
• Resolves a problem in which a hang occurs after the “User logged in” message is
displayed during an ftp session to a UCX host as a user with no password.
• Resolves a problem in which gated can produce a core after port 616 is scanned
by a port scanner.
• Fixes a problem with FTP byte/hash count when the file size exceeds 2 GB.
• Modifies niffconfig to display appropriate error messages.
• Corrects a problem in which ftp reget works incorrectly when restarting at 2 GB
or larger.
• Provides enhancements for NetRAIN operations.
• Corrects a potential locally exploitable integer overflow vulnerability in the
Network Time Protocol. This potential vulnerability could lead to clients receiving
an incorrect date/time offset, resulting in an incorrect date/time on the client.
SRT4718 - NTP (Severity - High)
• Modifies the ip6_setup script to limit some Mobile IPv6 questions to LAN interfaces
only.
• Corrects a problem in which ftpd core dumps when a 1000 or more directories are
present.
• Adds support for ifconfig [inet6] delete [abort] for IPv6 connections.
• Fixes a problem in the implementation of the RIPng protocol that prevents IPv6
routes from being deleted as expected.
• Resolves intermittent core failures in gated.
• Corrects default tape device as /dev/tape/tape0_d1 for dump and restore as per
device naming convention in V5x versions.
148 Tru64 UNIX Patches