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- Archive-name: computer-security/vendor-contacts
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- Last-modified: 1995/01/02
- Version: 2.0
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- Vendor Contacts FAQ
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- Version: 2.0
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- This Security FAQ is a resource provided by:
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- Internet Security Systems, Inc.
- 2000 Miller Court West Tel: (404) 441-4531
- Norcross, Georgia 30071 Fax: (404) 441-2431
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- - Computer Security Consulting - Penetration Analysis of Networks -
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- To get the newest updates of Security files check the following services:
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- mail info@iss.net with "send index" in message
- http://iss.net/~iss
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- "It [Vendor Security Contact FAQ] is the kind of thing that makes you
- look good at work when your boss decides he's joe security and wants
- a patch (for like rdist - duh!) yesterday..." - Tim Scanlon, System
- Analyst
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- Vendor Security Contacts: Reporting Vulnerabilities and Obtaining New Patches
-
- The following FAQ is a list of security contacts to reach at various vendors
- for reporting security vulnerabilities and obtaining new security related
- patches.
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- With the rising number of people and hosts gaining access to the Internet, the
- basic integrity of the Net needs to be maintained. Many of security incidents
- that happen on Internet could have been avoided by installing security patches
- that are available by vendors. It is important to get the recent patches and
- ensure that your systems are configured properly. With intruders and their
- underground network having quick access to security vulnerabilities, it is
- important that administrators have security information available and not rely
- on just One organization.
-
- Here are the security contacts that information is available for:
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- A/UX
- Cray Research
- Dec
- HP
- IBM
- Next
- Novell
- SCO
- SGI
- Sun
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- Other important security contacts included are:
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- CERT Contact
- CIAC Contact
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- When reporting a new security bug, try to be as specific as possible about how
- to reproduce it, which OS release (uname -a), and any other release numbers of
- software that are involved.
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- A/UX
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- Contact information for A/UX as follows:
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- Send security related information to the following people:
- Erik E. Fair: fair@apple.com and CC: staff@apple.com
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- Cray Research
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- Contact information for Cray Research as follows:
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- Cray Research customers should first direct questions and concerns to on-site
- support personnel (if provided by their service contract). Other contacts
- should be made through:
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- Technical Service Center
- Cray Research, Inc.
- 655F Lone Oak Drive
- Eagan MN 55121
- USA
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- tel. +1-612-683-5600
- email. support@cray.com
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- DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation
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- Contact information for DEC is as follows:
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- Send security related information to the following person:
- FIRST Contact: Rich Boren rich.boren@cxo.mts.dec.com, (719) 592-4689
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- Security patches are issued by Customer Support Centers.
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- HP, Hewlett Packard
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- Contact information for HP as follows:
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- For security concerns, questions, or problems, you can contact:
- security-alert@hp.com
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- Obtaining Patches:
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- Patches and mailing lists are available through the HP SupportLine service.
- More information is available in their bulletin. The HP SupportLine mail
- service is available to anyone who can send electronic mail via the Internet.
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- IBM, International Business Machines
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- Contact information for IBM as follows:
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- IBM support @ 1-800 237-5511
- Email to services@austin.ibm.com
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- Send security related information to Nick Trio (nrt@watson.ibm.com, a.k.a.
- (postmaster@ibm.com) Unix person on IBM's Computer Emergency Response Team) and
- Alan Fedeli ( fedeli@vnet.ibm.com).
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- There are some security patches on anonymous FTP software.watson.ibm.com in
- pub/aix3 for AIX.
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- Security patches are issued through your IBM sales office.
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- Novell, Inc.
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- Contact information for Novell as follows:
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- Phone number: 800-4-UNIVEL
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- Security patches are available from:
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- Compuserve
- ftp from ftp.novell.com
- floppy from the Novell support folks
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- NeXT
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- Contact information for Next as follows:
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- Technical Support: ask_next@next.com
- Phone number: 800.848.6398
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- Address:
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- 900 Chesapeake Drive
- Redwood City, CA 94063
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- SCO
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- Contact information for The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO):
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- Send security related information to: security-alert@sco.com
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- Security patches are issued on an as-needed basis and will be available at
- ftp.sco.com and its mirrors.
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- When submitting information about a security problem, please include output of
- the following commands:
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- uname -X
- swconfig
- hwconfig -h (if hardware-related)
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- and as much detail about the problem as you can muster.
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- SGI - Silicon Graphics Incoporated
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- Contact information for SGI as follows:
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- Send security related information to: security-alert@sgi.com
- If there is no response, try Dave Olson (olson@sgi.com) or Miguel Sanchez
- (miguel@sgi.com).
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- Inside US:
- Support line: 1-800-800-4SGI
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- Outside US/Canada:
- Contact your local SGI support provider
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- FTP Site:
- ftp.sgi.com (192.48.153.1)
- When available, patches are placed in the directories
- security
- sgi/IRIX4.0
- sgi/IRIX5.0
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- Sun
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- Contact information for Sun as follows:
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- email: security-alert@sun.com
- phone: 415-688-9081
- Fax: 415-688-9101
- postal:
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- Sun Security Coordinator
- MS MPK2-04
- 2550 Garcia Avenue
- Mountain View, CA 94043-1100
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- For reporting security vulnerabilities and problems, Sun strongly recommends
- that you report problems to your local Answer Center and your representative
- computer security response team, such as CERT. In some cases your local Answer
- Center will accept a report of a security bug even if you do not have a support
- contract. An additional notification to the security-alert alias is suggested
- but should not be used as your primary vehicle for reporting a bug.
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- Sun Security Bulletins
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- Sun Security Bulletins are available free of charge as part of our Customer
- Warning System. It is not necessary to have a Sun support contract in order to
- receive them.
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- To subscribe to this bulletin series, send mail to the address
- "security-alert@Sun.COM" with the subject "subscribe CWS your-mail-address" and
- a message body containing affiliation and contact information. To request that
- your name be removed from the mailing list, send mail to the same address with
- the subject "unsubscribe CWS your-mail-address". Do not include other requests
- or reports in a subscription message.
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- Due to the volume of subscription requests Sun receives, Sun cannot guarantee
- to acknowledge requests. Please contact the security office if you wish to
- verify that your subscription request was received, or if you would like your
- bulletin delivered via postal mail or fax.
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- Sun Security Bulletins are archived on ftp.uu.net (in the same directory as the
- patches) and on SunSolve. Please try these sources first before contacting the
- security office for old bulletins.
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- Other Resources
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- CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)
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- The CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team). To report a vulnerability contact
- CERT at:
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- E-mail: cert@cert.org
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- Past advisories and other information related to computer security are
- available for anonymous FTP from cert.org (192.88.209.5).
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- See the Security Resources FAQ for more information on CERT and vulnerability
- reporting forms.
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- CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability)
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- The CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability) of DoE. To report a
- vulnerability, contact CIAC at
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- voice: 510-422-8193
- fax: 510-423-8002
- stu-iii: 510-423-2604
- or mail ciac@llnl.gov.
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- Previous CIAC bulletins and other information is available via anonymous ftp
- from ciac.llnl.gov (ip address 128.115.51.53).
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- See the Security Resources FAQ for more information on CIAC advisories and
- mailing lists.
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- Acknowledgements
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- Thanks go to the following people for providing new or updated information to
- be included in this FAQ:
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- Dave Millar for helping provide a portion of the information.
- Steve Cooper, spcooper@llnl.gov
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- Copyright
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- This paper is Copyright (c) 1994, 1995
- by Christopher Klaus of Internet Security Systems, Inc.
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- liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the use
- or spread of this information. Any use of this information is at the user's own
- risk.
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- Address of Author
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- Please send suggestions, updates, and comments to:
- Christopher Klaus <cklaus@iss.net> of Internet Security Systems, Inc.
- <iss@iss.net>
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- Internet Security Systems, Inc. Computer Security Consulting
- 2000 Miller Court West, Norcross, GA 30071
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