Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!fub!dobag.in-berlin.de!lumpi From: lumpi@dobag.in-berlin.de (Joern Lubkoll) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: security bug in ISC sysv386. here's a quick fix. Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 13:31:56 GMT References: <1991Feb12.200752.2772@vort.uucp> <16414@chopin.udel.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Dobag Computer Systems Berlin Lines: 17 weave@chopin.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes: >In article <1991Feb12.200752.2772@vort.uucp> mike@vort.uucp (Mike Nemeth) writes: >>calm down folks, there's a quick fix. if you're root just do the following: >> >>- nuke everybody off the system now. tell 'em the disk's on fire. >>- as root, run the following >> >># cd / >># /etc/conf/bin/idtune UAREARW 0 >This bug is also present on AT&T SYSV/386 and that tunable param ain't >defined on my box. I called my vendor today. They are *working* on it.... *working* .... I really hope, they are working on it, because it can't go on this way ! jl -- lumpi@dobag.in-berlin.de -- "Nothing is the complete absence of everything."