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From: jdm@hodge.UUCP (jdm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Security bugs in SunOS 4.0.1
Message-ID: <21881@hodge.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 89 05:50:43 GMT
Organization: Hodge Computer Research Corporation
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	According to the latest issue of the Sun Observer the
	newest version of SunOS, 4.0.2, fixes (among other things)
	five security bugs that are present in SunOS 4.0.1. A list
	of these bugs was not given.  I know one bug is the line

	::0:0:::

	being substituted for each blank line left in /etc/passwd,
	but what are the other four?  We probably won't be upgrading
	our 386i to 4.0.2 for a few months and this article has
	gotten a few managment (read, "non-unix") people quite
	paraniod about our current system security.  


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