Re: Telnet attack on SGI

[miguel () boytoy csd sgi com (Michael/Miguel Sanchez)]

On Nov 9, 10:54pm, Edwin Kremer wrote:
> Subject: Re: Telnet attack on SGI
> 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 ]--
> --
> Edwin H. Kremer, systems- and network administrator.   <edwin.kremer () cs ruu nl>
> Dept. of Computer Science,  Utrecht University, The Netherlands   [WHOIS: ehk3]
> -------------------- http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/edwin/ -----------------------
> -- End of excerpt from Edwin Kremer


This is incorrect.  Patch 981 is not finished and is not available for
distribution.

Please, do not contact your SGI service provider for something that is
not available yet.


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  Miguel (Michael) J. Sanchez                        miguel () sgi com
  Silicon Graphics Customer Services Engineering
  "There's always room for jello."                       Cage #64
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