Re: Telnet attack on SGI

[Edwin.Kremer () NOC cs ruu nl (Edwin Kremer)]

On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Douglas Siebert wrote:

  : There are two ways I know of to protect against this attack until SGI has a
  : patch ready.

SGI has the patch ready. Ask your support folks for patch #981 which,
according to the README file: contains bug fixes for all versions of IRIX 5.2,
IRIX 5.3, IRIX 6.0 and IRIX 6.0.1, and 6.1. The software cannot be installed
on other versions.

Funny, though, the README mentions "Patch_SG0000931", but that's just a
slippery keyboard, I presume.

                best regards,
                                                --[ Edwin ]--
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