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[SunSolve-EarlyNotifier@Sun.COM] 09/12/99 EarlyNotifier Alert
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Mon Sep 13 11:15:19 1999
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:59:47 -0400
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
This would be cool to get in to a patch release. (The exploit was
posted to BugTraq several months ago.)
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Subject: 09/12/99 EarlyNotifier Alert
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Bulletin Number: #00189
Date: September 8, 1999
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Title: LC_MESSAGES
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Sun announces the release of patches for Solaris(tm) 7 and 2.6 (SunOS(tm)
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Sun recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4
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Vulnerable: SunOS 5.7, 5.7_x86, 5.6, 5.6_x86.
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5.7_x86 ufsrestore 106794-03
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