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Re: augmented.mit.edu is vulnerable to compromise - Case 173330

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Tue May 2 09:05:54 2000

Message-Id: <200005021305.JAA18404@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: hoffmann@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
Cc: netsecurity@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [13]
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 09:05:46 -0400
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>

Actually, augmented is running 8.4 alpha.  Last I heard, the plan was to  
back out to BIND 8.1 as named has been randomly dying (testers[4346]); 
what should I do at this point?

--Abby

>Hi Gang,  We received a report from the CIAC today
>which included log information from a system they
>analyzed.  This log indicated that AUGMENTED was
>among several systems at MIT which are vulnerable
>to attack via a named bug.
>
>It is likely that an actual compromise could be
>mitigated by having AUGMENTED updated to the current
>Athena release, if it is not already at that rev.
>
>-Ron Hoffmann
> MIT Network Operations

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