Just a few days after Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) released a patch for a highly critical vulnerability in its Tru64 OS, it seems Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris 9 has fallen sick with the same bug. . . .
Just a few days after Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) released a patch for a highly critical vulnerability in its Tru64 OS, it seems Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris 9 has fallen sick with the same bug.

The hole in the IPSec and SSH programs -- used to securely send Internet data and system commands -- could allow a malicious user system access or launch a denial of service attack. Neither is good.

We don't know quite what the hole is since the patches were put out by HP, although it seems likely that Sun does, and having reviewed its own software, it too has put out a patch for Solaris 9 on x86 systems. According to the company, it doesn't not affect any other systems.

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