[30634] in Hotline Meeting
[brlewis@MIT.EDU: impending security announcement]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Burke)
Tue Oct 31 12:04:12 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 12:03:52 -0500
To: hotline@MIT.EDU, ljr@MIT.EDU
From: burke@MIT.EDU (Jerry Burke)
Hi all,
Please be aware, that this security issue affects Private Athenized SUNS,
SGI's and RS6000s. The DECs are not affected according to Bruce.
Jerry
>Subject: impending security announcement
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>This information is not yet public and should be shared on a
>need-to-know basis.
>
>Early Tuesday afternoon, Oct 31, an announcement will go out from the
>CERT regarding an important security hole in telnetd. It affects Sun,
>SGI, and RS/6000 Athena workstations. People with private workstations
>that are "mkserv remote" will need to copy a new telnetd out of the
>telnet locker.
>
>Note that this is one day later than what I previously told madpit and
>dlukas.
>
>It's important that someone with experience installing telnetd be
>available at the network help desk, the f_l's and OLC on Tuesday
>afternoon. I don't know how this fits in with the new help-desk
>framework.
>
>If you would like to contribute to the wording of the announcement to go
>out within MIT, please talk to Ted <tytso@mit.edu>.
>
>--
> , Bruce R. Lewis <brlewis@MIT.EDU> ___
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