From agent99@boytoy.csd.sgi.com Wed Jan 8 15:45:28 1997 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:10:57 -0800 From: SGI Security Coordinator To: agent99@sgi.com Subject: SGI Security Advisory 19970101-01-A - csetup Program -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ Silicon Graphics Inc. Security Advisory Title: IRIX 5.x, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.1, 6.2 csetup Program Vulnerability Title: CERT(sm) Advisory CA-97.03 Number: 19970101-01-A Date: January 8, 1997 ______________________________________________________________________________ Silicon Graphics provides this information freely to the SGI user community for its consideration, interpretation, implementation and use. Silicon Graphics recommends that this information be acted upon as soon as possible. Silicon Graphics will not be liable for any indirect, special, or consequential damages arising from the use of, failure to use or improper use of any of the instructions or information in this Security Advisory. ______________________________________________________________________________ Silicon Graphics acknowledges the csetup vulnerability reported by the CERT Coordination Center and AUSCERT organizations in CERT(sm) Advisory CA-97.03. Silicon Graphics has been coordinating with the CERT CC and AUSCERT organizations in development of their advisory and as part of its on going investigation of this issue. No further information from Silicon Graphics is available at this time. As further information becomes available, additional advisories will be issued. - ----------------------------------------- - --- SGI Security Information/Contacts --- - ----------------------------------------- If there are questions about this document, email can be sent to cse-security-alert@sgi.com. ------oOo------ Silicon Graphics provides security information and patches for use by the entire SGI community. This information is freely available to any person needing the information and is available via anonymous FTP and the Web. The primary SGI anonymous FTP site for security information and patches is sgigate.sgi.com (204.94.209.1). Security information and patches are located under the directories ~ftp/security and ~ftp/patches, respectively. The Silicon Graphics Security Headquarters Web page is accessible at the URL http://www.sgi.com/Support/Secur/security.html. For issues with the patches on the FTP sites, email can be sent to cse-security-alert@sgi.com. For assistance obtaining or working with security patches, please contact your SGI support provider. ------oOo------ Silicon Graphics provides a free security mailing list service called wiretap and encourages interested parties to self-subscribe to receive (via email) all SGI Security Advisories when they are released. Subscribing to the mailing list can be done via the Web (http://www.sgi.com/Support/Secur/wiretap.html) or by sending email to SGI as outlined below. % mail wiretap-request@sgi.com subscribe wiretap end ^d In the example above, is the email address that you wish the mailing list information sent to. The word end must be on a separate line to indicate the end of the body of the message. The control-d (^d) is used to indicate to the mail program that you are finished composing the mail message. ------oOo------ Silicon Graphics provides a comprehensive customer World Wide Web site. This site is located at http://www.sgi.com/Support/Secur/security.html. ------oOo------ For reporting *NEW* SGI security issues, email can be sent to security-alert@sgi.com or contact your SGI support provider. A support contract is not required for submitting a security report. ______________________________________________________________________________ This information is provided freely to all interested parties and may be redistributed provided that it is not altered in any way, Silicon Graphics is appropriately credited and the document retains and includes its valid PGP signature. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMtQbD7Q4cFApAP75AQHFKwP+I4BM6Bgz8EQ864hIKUwyXoz31O0VUxze /mAchhhoGGI308DXZ/m6M55zBW7MhqeRR4QRwRPCCb9JTdPAAgk0+vUaNJBprO52 V5wL+nAVzDSO1WogUuJyQQ1JUVpBOm4V4LEQn3Z5E96rFl+q1FWhO6jZBLqvPwJY +5xiBQsj5EY= =TO/w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----