The information in the following Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon as possible. Hewlett-Packard Company will not be liable for any consequences to any customer resulting from customer's failure to fully implement instructions in this Security Bulletin as soon as possible. A SNMP community string in HP OpenView allow access to certain SNMP variables. May reduce manageability of affected HP-UX systems. Install the patches listed below.
All patches are available now.
ISS X-force SNMP community resource notice, dated November 2nd, 1998. A SNMP community string exists in HP OpenView SNMP agent implementations allowing access to certain SNMP variables. This may result in limited manageability of affected HP-UX systems. The system remains operational but will be unable to respond to some queries from a management server. This problem is not an OpenView-specific problem, but OpenView can be affected when communicating with systems that have an affected agent.