COMMAND

    Interlink Stack

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

    OS/390 Interlink Stack

PROBLEM

    'bugz' found  following. It  appears that  the Interlink  IP stack
    for OS/390 is not very resilient.  In recent testing 'bugz'  found
    that if you use  the OS Fingerprinting feature  of nmap to map  an
    Interlink stack it causes the  stack to crash harshly.   The exact
    nature of this problem isn't known yet.

SOLUTION

    After hearing from the vendor and some testing, it appears that  a
    newer version of the Interlink stack has been patched against this
    problem.  Interlink users should upgrade to version 5.2 and  apply
    the 9907 maintenence patches.