Symantec Enterprise Security Manager™ OS Patch Policy

11 May 2005
Symantec Enterprise Security Manager™ OS Patches (Patch) module

Description

The OS Patches (Patch) module checks for the presence of operating system and application patches that strengthen system security. Patch information is stored in Patch templates.

Symantec updates Patch templates with the Symantec ESM policy installer. This ensures that updated Patch templates for supported operating systems and applications are available for policies that are delivered with Security Update releases. Installing this update adds or updates the OS Patches policy and associated template files on the Symantec ESM manager.

This rapid response patch update for Symantec Enterprise Security Manager reports operating system and application patches for both Windows and UNIX operating systems. There are a total of 348 new patch signatures and 30 updated patch signatures in 9 templates:

patch.pai (AIX - 23 new, 3 updated)
patch.ph1 (HP-UX - 2 new, 1 updated)
patch_su19.ph1 (HP-UX for SU19 - 2 new, 26 updated)
patch.plx (RedHat - 113 new)
patch.ps6 (Solaris 2.6+ - 12 new)
patch_su19.ps6 (Solaris 2.6+ for SU19 - 12 new)
patch.psl (SUSE - 182 new)
patch.ps5 (Windows 2000 Server - 1 new)
patch.pw5 (Windows 2000 Professional - 1 new)

This rapid response policy includes updates to the OS Patches (Patch) module templates that detect new vendor-released patches dated on or before May 11, 2005:

Windows Server 2003 64-bit Edition
Windows Server 2003
Windows XP Professional
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows NT 4 Server
Windows NT 4 Workstation
HP-UX
AIX
Solaris
Red Hat Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Standard Server 8
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8

The following applications are also supported:

Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE)
Internet Information Services Web server (IIS)
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook Express
Microsoft Visual Studio

This update also includes rapid response support for the detection of vulnerabilities that were disclosed by Microsoft on May 11, 2005.

MS05-024

Vulnerability in Web View Could Allow Remote Code Execution (894320)

This policy is designed for Symantec ESM agents running SU 17 (and later) versions of the OS Patch module. Symantec ESM agents running SU 16 are acceptable but not recommended. Due to a modification in the method used to extract version information, SU 17 or greater is required for Windows NT.

ESM 6.0 and 6.0.1 users: To automatically install, use the link below or use LiveUpdate.

Download OS Patch Policy BestPractice_OS_Patch_Updates_20050511.exe Obsoleted

Note: For more information regarding this update, download the OS Patch Policy Release Notes.

Initial Post on: Wednesday, 11-May-05 16:29:49
Last modified on: Wednesday, 25-May-05 18:28:51