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OpenVMS is a mainframe-like Operating System. It was originally developed by Digital, and now distributed and maintained by Compaq. It has been discovered that TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS systems are vulnerable to the problems reported in Bugtraq ID 4088 "Multiple Vendor SNMP Trap Handling Vulnerabilities" and 4089 "Multiple Vendor SNMP Request Handling Vulnerabilities." An access violation (ACCVIO) may occur on vulnerable OpenVMS systems when a specific type of SNMP traffic is sent to the vulnerable system. This could cause the SNMP agent to crash. It has been reported by Compaq that this problem can not be used to compromise system security, as the SNMP agent is run from a non-privileged process. Additionally, the SNMP agent may crash, but will likely be restarted when the next SNMP service request is received.

OpenVMS is a mainframe-like Operating System. It was originally developed by Digital, and now distributed and maintained by Compaq. It has been discovered that TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS systems are vulnerable to the problems reported in Bugtraq ID 4088 "Multiple Vendor SNMP Trap Handling Vulnerabilities" and 4089 "Multiple Vendor SNMP Request Handling Vulnerabilities." An access violation (ACCVIO) may occur on vulnerable OpenVMS systems when a specific type of SNMP traffic is sent to the vulnerable system. This could cause the SNMP agent to crash. It has been reported by Compaq that this problem can not be used to compromise system security, as the SNMP agent is run from a non-privileged process. Additionally, the SNMP agent may crash, but will likely be restarted when the next SNMP service request is received.