I have applied Maintenance Level 7 on AIX 4.3.3 and have tested agianst the nmap scan and this patch seems to have worked fine for us. Steven Bishop Telus Enterprise Solutions (604)482-3027 bishop@telus.net -----Original Message----- From: Ali, Farrad [mailto:fali@microgeneral.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:29 AM To: 'Eoin D. Fleming'; bugtraq@securityfocus.com Subject: RE: HACMP and port scans I believe that this is related to snmpd dying when you port scan a box. Applying Maintenance Level 7 on AIX 4.3.3 seemed to fix the problem for us. -----Original Message----- From: Eoin D. Fleming [mailto:rtfm@eircom.net] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 4:27 PM To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Subject: HACMP and port scans It appears that IBM's HACMP 4.4 clustering software can be induced to fail simply by port scanning clustered machines, has anyone come accross this vulnerability and is there a workaround? Thanks, RT