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Re: IRIX 5.2 Security Advisory
From: karyn () cheetah llnl gov (Karyn Pichnarczyk)
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 16:14:04 -0700
I'd like to get this IRIX thing under control. I've been talking to the people at SGI and they are definitely aware of all this traffic and are, as I type this, working on getting this whole issue settled. First of all, I'm sending this to everyone that max () gac edu sent his wrapper program to, but I'd like it to settle into only the correct newsgroups. This isn't a firewalls issue, so I think this letter should probably be the last message to firewalls on this subject. I'm guessing bugtraq is the best place to post this to, so I'd like to recommend that all followups go to bugtraq, and people can subscribe to it themselves (mail to bugtraq-request () cns cscns com, in the text part of the message say subscribe bugtraq). CIAC plans to soon put out a bulletin about this vulnerability. Until then, the best recommendation I can give is to stand by SGI's recommendation, and wait for SGI's response. This way you have a proven, vendor-tested, vendor-endorsed workaround in the meantime. I really do appreciate Max's efforts to quickly develop an alternative to SGI's solution. Since it came out as quickly as it did, I'm unsure that this wrapper has been tested sufficiently to recommend to the world at large to install it. Karyn Pichnarczyk CIAC Team
Current thread:
- IRIX 5.2 Security Advisory Steve Kotsopoulos (Aug 09)
- Re: IRIX 5.2 Security Advisory Dave Sill (Aug 09)
- Re: IRIX 5.2 Security Advisory max () gac edu (Aug 09)
- Re: IRIX 5.2 Security Advisory Marc W. Mengel (Aug 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: IRIX 5.2 Security Advisory Jim Littlefield (Aug 09)
- Re: IRIX 5.2 Security Advisory Karyn Pichnarczyk (Aug 09)
- Re: IRIX 5.2 Security Advisory Perry E. Metzger (Aug 10)
- Re: IRIX 5.2 Security Advisory Bob Vickers (Aug 10)