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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: sendmail security
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Date: 23 Nov 88 16:12:38 GMT
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In article <28193@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>In article <7528@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> kean@mist.cs.orst.edu (Kean Stump) writes:
>>Would someone who has a NeXT check to see if the 0.8 release has the
>>(ahem) recent security patches to sendmail/ftpd/fingerd implemented ?
>
> . . .
>
>It appears that that hole may have been plugged since as early as 0.3.

Steve Jobs came to talk a the Nov. 17 meeting of the Berkeley Macintosh Users
Group, and he said that when the virus/worm was going around the network,
NeXT got the infection and it kept them busy for a while cleaning it up.

Edward Moy				Principal Programmer - Macintosh & Unix
Workstation Support Services		Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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