Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cs.dal.ca!silvert From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) Subject: Re: Is this a mail bug? Message-ID: <1991May16.193914.1507@cs.dal.ca> Summary: Why is it still there? Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert) Reply-To: silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography References: <9105161326.AA20522@dcdmjw.fnal.gov> Date: Thu, 16 May 91 19:39:14 GMT In article <9105161326.AA20522@dcdmjw.fnal.gov> wicks@DCDMJW.FNAL.GOV ("Matthew J. Wicks") writes: >am attaching an old posting from this news group giving details of how to >get the fix. > >-----------------------------------OLD POSTING------------------------------ >>From info-iris-request@vmb.brl.mil Thu Oct 11 18:56:33 1990 >Date: 11 Oct 90 19:37:35 GMT >>From: Superuser >Subject: WARNING - Security hole in IRIX 3.3 /usr/sbin/Mail So the fix was posted on October 11? My PI was shipped by SGI on Feb. 12 of this year and has the same problem. When will SGI ship the fixed version of Mail? -- William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577 UUCP=..!{uunet|watmath}!dalcs!biome!silvert BITNET=silvert%biome%dalcs@dalac InterNet=silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca