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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: An unofficial but trustworthy word about the WORM and ULTRIX from Digital
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Date: 9 Nov 88 14:42:50 GMT
References: <2581@decuac.DEC.COM> <269@popvax.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
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In article <269@popvax.harvard.edu> mohamed@popvax.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy) writes:
>In article <2581@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) writes:
>>No official fix has come out from Digital regarding the sendmail/fingerd
>>worm hole (whoah!) because ULTRIX machines are not affected.  ULTRIX sendmail
>
>What is the status of ftpd under ULTRIX (present, Field Test and future)?
>Does the bug exist, and if so have users been notified?  As I recall, the
>bug was only described in comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, a group that is probably
>subscribed to by very few binary sites.

Yes, the ftpd bug does exist.  Shut off anonymous FTP for the time being.
I have contacted our DEC rep to see if a patch is available.
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