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Home : Advisories : Telnetd Environment Vulnerability

Title: Telnetd Environment Vulnerability
Released by: CERT
Date: 1st November 1995
Printable version: Click here
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CERT(*) Advisory CA-95:14

Original issue date: November 1, 1995

Last revised: October 30, 1997 - Updated vendor information for Sun.



              A complete revision history is at the end of this file.



Topic: Telnetd Environment Vulnerability

- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------



The CERT Coordination Center has been made aware of a vulnerability with

some telnet daemons. The daemons affected are those that support RFC 1408

or RFC 1572, both titled "Telnet Environment Option," running on systems

that also support shared object libraries.



To determine if your system is potentially vulnerable, refer to the

information we have received from vendors which is summarized in Section III

below; details are in Appendix A. Note that if you installed a version of

David Borman's telnet package that is older than October 23, 1995, your system

may be vulnerable even though it was not vulnerable as distributed by the

vendor.



If your vendor is not listed, you will need to determine if your system

may be vulnerable. First, determine if your telnet daemon is RFC 1408/1572

compliant. One indication that it is compliant is if your telnet(1)

program supports the "environ" command or your telnetd(8) program supports

the ENVIRON or NEW-ENVIRON options. Unless you are certain that your

telnet daemon is not RFC 1408/1572 compliant, you may wish to assume it is

to be safe. Second, determine if your system supports shared libraries. To

do this, consult the ld(1) manual page. If it describes dynamic or shared

objects, your system probably supports shared object libraries. A system

is potentially vulnerable if the telnet daemon supports RFC 1408/RFC 1572

and the system supports shared object libraries.



We recommend that you follow your vendor's directions for addressing this

vulnerability. Until you can install a patch, we recommend using the

workaround in Appendix B below. If you have previously installed David

Borman's telnet package on your system, we recommend that you obtain the

current version of telnet (see Section III.C).



We will update this advisory as we receive additional information.

Please check advisory files regularly for updates that relate to your site.



- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------



I.   Description



     Some telnet daemons support RFC 1408 or RFC 1572, both titled "Telnet

     Environment Option." This extension to telnet provides the ability

     to transfer environment variables from one system to another. If

     the remote or targeted system, the one to which the telnet is

     connecting, is running an RFC 1408/RFC 1572-compliant telnet daemon

     *and* the targeted system also supports shared object libraries, then

     it may be possible to transfer environment variables that influence

     the login program called by the telnet daemon. By influencing that

     targeted system, a user may be able to bypass the normal login and

     authentication scheme and may become root on that system.



     Users with accounts on the targeted system can exploit this

     vulnerability. Users without accounts on that system can also

     exploit this vulnerability if they are first able to deposit an

     altered shared object library onto the targeted system. Therefore, a

     system may be vulnerable to users with and without local accounts.



     Not all systems that run an RFC 1408/RFC 1572-compliant telnet daemon

     and support shared object libraries are vulnerable. Some vendors have

     changed the trust model such that environment variables provided by

     the telnet daemon are not trusted and therefore are not used by the

     login program. Section III contains a summary of information vendors

     have reported as of the date of this advisory.



II.  Impact



     Local and remote users can become root on the targeted system.



III. Solution



     The general solution to this problem is to replace the telnet daemon

     with one that changes the environment given to the login program. We

     recommend that you install a patch from your vendor if possible. If this

     is not possible, we recommend using the workaround in Appendix B until

     you can install a patch. Finally, if you have previously installed Mr.

     Borman's telnet package, see Section C for how to get a new version that

     fixes the vulnerability.



     A. Vendor Patches



        Below is a summary of the vendors listed in Appendix A of this

        advisory. More complete information, including how to obtain patches,

        is provided in the appendix. We will update the appendix as we receive

        more information from vendors.



        If your vendor's name is not on this list, please contact the

        vendor directly.



        REMINDER: If you installed a version of David Borman's telnet package

                  that is older than October 23, 1995, your system may be

                  vulnerable even though it was not vulnerable as distributed

                  by the vendor.



        Vendor or Source

        ----------------

        Apple Computer

        Berkeley Software Design

        Cray Research

        CYGNUS

        Data General

        Digital Equipment

        FreeBSD

        Harris

        Hewlett-Packard

        IBM Corp.

        Linux

        MIT-distributed for Athena

        NEC

        NetBSD

        Open Software Foundation

        OpenVision

        SCO

        SGI

        Sony Corp.



     B. Workaround



        Until you can install a patch from your vendor, you can use

        the workaround provided in Appendix B.



     C. If you have installed a previous version of Mr. Borman's

        telnet package, note that he has fixed this problem in

        the version available at the following location:



                http://ftp.cray.com/src/telnet/telnet.95.10.23.NE.tar.Z



                MD5 checksum 2e14879a5b0aa6dd855a17fa8a3086cf





..............................................................................



Appendix A: Vendor Information



Below is information we have received from vendors. If you do not see your

vendor's name below, contact the vendor directly for information.



Apple Computer, Inc.

- --------------------

Apple's A/UX is not vulnerable.





Berkeley Software Design, Inc.

- -----------------------------

BSDI's BSD/OS is not vulnerable.





Cray Research, Inc.

- -------------------

Cray's UNICOS is not vulnerable.





CYGNUS Network Security V4 Free Network Release

- ----------------------------------------------------

cns-95q1 is vulnerable.   cns-95q4 is not vulnerable.



Customers can use the following URL to obtain the patch:



        http://www.cygnus.com/data/cns/telnetdpatch.html



If customers are unable to obtain the patch in this manner

or have any questions, send e-mail to kerbask@cygnus.com/



Note that while the URL and patch are already available, there

is no link to the page yet.  We will add a link once the

announcement has been made.





Data General Corporation

- ------------------------

Data General believes the DG/UX operating system to be

NOT vulnerable to this problem.  This includes all supported

releases, DG/UX 5.4 Release 3.00, DG/UX 5.4 Release 3.10,

DG/UX Release 4.10 and all related Trusted DG/UX releases.



Specifically, telnetd shipped in DG/UX does not support

environment options and does not support RFC 1572.





Digital Equipment Corporation

- -----------------------------

Digital's OSF/1: vulnerable

Digital's ULTRIX: not vulnerable



Digital has corrected this potential vulnerability. Patches containing

new images for Digital's OSF/1 platforms are being provided to your

normal Digital Support channels beginning October 31 (U.S. time). The

kits may be identified as ECO SSRT0367 (telnetd) for DEC OSF/1  V2.0

thru V3.2c



This potential vulnerability is not present on Digital's ULTRIX systems.



Digital distribution of this announcement will be via AES services  (DIA,

DSNlink FLASH etc.). Digital Equipment Corporation strongly urges Customers

to upgrade to a minimum of DEC OSF/1 V3.0, then apply this patch.





FreeBSD

- -------

Vulnerable.  A patch has been applied to the current development FreeBSD

source tree which is not yet released.  This patch is slightly modified

compared to posted one, i.e. only variables which affects FreeBSD are

disabled. It is telnetd patch, not a login wrapper.



For the official patch, location please contact:



Jordan Hubbard 





Harris

- ------

Harris Computer Systems Corporation's Night Hawk is not vulnerable.





Hewlett-Packard Company

- -----------------------

HP/UX is not vulnerable.





IBM Corporation

- ---------------

AIX is not vulnerable to this attack.





Linux (freely available software; not a vendor)

- -----

Debian GNU/Linux (From "Peter Tobias" ):

The current version of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (released 10/27/95)

is not vulnerable anymore. All Debian Installations that use a netstd

package version prior to v1.21-1 are vulnerable (telnetd is part of

the netstd package). netstd-1.21-1 and above are ok.



Patches are available. Peter fixed the bug last week and uploaded the

fixed version to our ftp site (ftp.debian.org). Binaries, sources and

the diffs against the bsd telnetd can be found there.  The URL for the

new binary package is:



http://ftp.debian.org/debian/debian-0.93/binary/net/netstd-1.21-1.deb



and the sources and the diff against the bsd telnetd can be found at:



http://ftp.debian.org/debian/debian-0.93/source/net/netstd-1.21-1/telnetd.tar.gz

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/debian-0.93/source/net/netstd-1.21-1/telnetd.diff.gz



Red Hat Linux (From Erik Troan ):

Vulnerable.  A fix is now available at:



http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat-2.0/updates/NetKit-B-0.06-4.i386.rpm

http://ftp.pht.com/pub/linux/redhat/redhat-2.0/updates/NetKit-B-0.06-4.i386.rpm



It will also be fixed in the upcoming Red Hat 2.1 release.



Slackware Linux is vulnerable.  The fixes are available from:



        http://ftp.cymru.net/pub/linux/security/in.telnetd.bin.gz

        MD5 (in.telnetd.bin.gz) = 300fc2b022f338e32db411d0e14f0bed



        http://ftp.cymru.net/pub/linux/security/in.telnetd.bin.elf.gz

        MD5 (in.telnetd.bin.elf.gz) = a9ed9a0b90b7a62c98c185e9c7970c5e



The CERT Coordination Center has received information that Paul Leyland

 has placed patches for Linux on ftp.ox.ac.uk.



Non-US sites may want to obtain the patches from this archive for convenience.

However, please note that these patches will only be available for the next

few months; at some point they will be removed from this location.



Linux: This consists of a README, a patch for the telnetd source and a

compiled telnetd which should be ok for most Slackware distributions

and is available from



        http://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/comp/security/software/patches/telnetd/linux



          MD5 (envpatch) = 3dff044bae0ee7076b8dce735e174962

          MD5 (telnetd) = ee2146342059ab00b94fae19f9b1ea63

          MD5 (README) = 83f8d07a9b9e8f307346d2ac4b8b3f39





MIT-distributed Athena telnet/telnet95

- --------------------------------------

Vulnerable. Patches available in:

        http://aeneas.mit.edu/pub/kerberos/telnet-patch/



beta4-3.patch is the patch versus the Beta 4 patch level 3 distribution

of Kerberos v5.



beta5.patch is the patch versus the Beta 5 distribution of Kerberos V5.



Both patches have been PGP signed by Ted Ts'o  using

detached signatures (beta4-3.patch.sig and beta5.patch.sig).





NEC Corporation

- ---------------

Some NEC systems are vulnerable.  Here is their vulnerability matrix:



       OS               Version        Status

- ------------------   ------------   -------------------------------------

EWS-UX/V(Rel4.0)     R1.x - R6.x    not vulnerable



EWS-UX/V(Rel4.2)     R7.x - R10.x   not vulnerable



EWS-UX/V(Rel4.2MP)   R10.x          vulnerable

                                    patch available



UP-UX/V              R2.x - R4.x    not vulnerable



UP-UX/V(Rel4.2MP)    R5.x - R7.x    vulnerable

                                    patch available



UX/4800              R11.x          vulnerable

                                    patch available

- --------------------------------------------------------------------------



           The patches are available through anonymous FTP from

           http://ftp.meshnet.or.jp in the /pub/48pub/security

           directory. Please refer to the README file in the directory

           concerning the appropriate patches that should be

           retrieved.



          OS          Version                Patch-ID and Checksums

  ------------------ ------- -------------------------------------------------

   EWS-UX/V(Rel4.2MP)  R10.x  NECmas001

                              Results of sum = 760 295

                  MD5 (NECmas001.COM.pkg)   = 588ED562BBDA6AFF45F1910A75C19B30



   UP-UX/V(Rel4.2MP)   R5.x   NECu5s001

                              Results of sum = 22675 293

                  MD5 (NECu5s001.COM.pkg)   = CBBA695079570BE994EDE8D5AD296B38



                       R6.x   NECu6s001

                              Results of sum = 40159 293

                  MD5 (NECu6s001.COM.pkg)   = C891AF03402CFD092B930253DC3CD607



                       R7.x   NECu7s001

                              Results of sum = 65094 295

                  MD5 (NECu7s001.COM.pkg)   = 00BAFAFF4A8FCFFB58FB6F8F94039D14



   UX/4800             R11.x  NECmbs002

                              Results of sum = 34536 295

                  MD5 (NECmbs002.COM.pkg)   = E6ADAAC22C1B32C4180B855C19B49205



Contacts for further information:

E-mail:UX48-security-support@nec.co.jp





NetBSD

- ------

NetBSD 1.0 (the last official release) is vulnerable; NetBSD 1.1 (due

out in mid-November) will not be.  NetBSD-current is not vulnerable,

as of a week or so ago.



Patches: A source form patch has been developed.  A core team member will

have to make source and binary patches available and provide a location for

it.



The login-wrapper given in the advisory can be compiled with NetBSD with:

        cc -static -o login-wrapper login-wrapper.c





Open Software Foundation

- ------------------------

OSF/1 version 1.3 is not vulnerable.





OpenVision

- ----------

This is from: Barry Jaspan :

OpenVision has a patch for the telnetd in OpenV*Secure 1.2 and will

contact its customers directly.





The Santa Cruz Operation Inc.

- -----------------------------

SCO is NOT vulnerable.





Silicon Graphics

- ----------------



On November 16, 1995, Silicon Graphics updated their advisory,

19951101-02-P1010o1020, concerning the Telnetd vulnerability.



In the original advisory, 19951101-01-P1010o1020, the patches 1010 and

1020 were indicated for the wrong versions of IRIX.  Patch 1010 is for

IRIX 6.1 and patch 1020 is for IRIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.0, 6.0.1.   The

corrections have been made below.



The solution for this issue is a replacement of the telnetd program

for those versions that are vulnerable.  The following patches have

been generated for those versions vulnerable and freely provides them

for the community.



**** IRIX 3.x ****



This version of IRIX is not vulnerable.  No action is required.



**** IRIX 4.x ****



This version of IRIX is not vulnerable.  No action is required.



**** IRIX 5.0.x, 5.1.x ****



For the IRIX operating systems versions 5.0.x, 5.1.x, an upgrade

to 5.2 or better is required first.  When the upgrade is completed,

then the patches described in the next sections "**** IRIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.0,

6.0.1, 6.1 ***"  or "**** IRIX 6.1 ****" can be applied.



**** IRIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.0, 6.0.1 ****



For the IRIX operating system versions 5.2, 5.3, 6.0, and 6.0.1,

an inst-able patch has been generated and made available via anonymous

ftp and/or your service/support provider.  The patch is number 1020

and will install on IRIX 5.2, 5.3, 6.0 and 6.0.1 .



The SGI anonymous ftp site is sgigate.sgi.com (204.94.209.1).   Patch

1020 can be found in the following directories on the ftp server:



        ~ftp/Security



                or



        ~ftp/Patches/5.2

        ~ftp/Patches/5.3

        ~ftp/Patches/6.0

        ~ftp/Patches/6.0.1



The actual patch will be a tar file containing the following files:



Filename:                 README.patch.1020

Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    31057 8 README.patch.1020

Algorithm #2 (sum):       40592 8 README.patch.1020

MD5 checksum:             02F06ECD6240015F8DF82A99EC01E911



Filename:                 patchSG0001020

Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    07232 2 patchSG0001020

Algorithm #2 (sum):       47310 2 patchSG0001020

MD5 checksum:             DA2341626FAEB9D67BA85FA3465BA9D9



Filename:                 patchSG0001020.eoe1_sw

Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    22449 62 patchSG0001020.eoe1_sw

Algorithm #2 (sum):       36518 62 patchSG0001020.eoe1_sw

MD5 checksum:             936019F2CC9AB6CAE0D2DF611D461475



Filename:                 patchSG0001020.eoe2_sw

Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    29899 43 patchSG0001020.eoe2_sw

Algorithm #2 (sum):       12088 43 patchSG0001020.eoe2_sw

MD5 checksum:             19A9C0BCB6F178E7EDF86850A1CF81D1



Filename:                 patchSG0001020.idb

Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    64615 2 patchSG0001020.idb

Algorithm #2 (sum):       46761 2 patchSG0001020.idb

MD5 checksum:             487831A62C61FEAF5797859CBC1F018C





**** IRIX 6.1 ****



For the IRIX operating system version 6.1, an inst-able patch has

been generated and made available via anonymous ftp and/or your

service/support provider.  The patch is number 1010 and will

install on IRIX 6.1 .



The SGI anonymous ftp site is sgigate.sgi.com (204.94.209.1).   Patch

1010 can be found in the following directories on the ftp server:



        ~ftp/Security



                or



        ~ftp/Patches/6.1



The actual patch will be a tar file containing the following files:



Filename:                 README.patch.1010

Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    43949 8 README.patch.1010

Algorithm #2 (sum):       38201 8 README.patch.1010

MD5 checksum:             A8781E18A1F79716FBFE0B6E083DAB31



Filename:                 patchSG0001010

Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    08656 2 patchSG0001010

Algorithm #2 (sum):       45506 2 patchSG0001010

MD5 checksum:             34CF7F63073C225AD76150A4088E76AB



Filename:                 patchSG0001010.eoe1_sw

Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    12843 65 patchSG0001010.eoe1_sw

Algorithm #2 (sum):       42034 65 patchSG0001010.eoe1_sw

MD5 checksum:             82B8D375ECBF58A08286D393CE3980E7



Filename:                 patchSG0001010.eoe2_sw

Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    01655 47 patchSG0001010.eoe2_sw

Algorithm #2 (sum):       19507 47 patchSG0001010.eoe2_sw

MD5 checksum:             1A5C5B5B84E0188A923C48419F716492



Filename:                 patchSG0001010.idb

Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    31514 2 patchSG0001010.idb

Algorithm #2 (sum):       46531 2 patchSG0001010.idb

MD5 checksum:             9540492FEB00D41281AAF90AC3F67FA9





SGI Security Information/Contacts:



For obtaining security information, patches or assistance, please

contact your SGI support provider.



If there are questions about this document, email can be sent to

cse-security-alert@csd.sgi.com .



For reporting *NEW* SGI security issues, email can be sent to

security-alert@sgi.com.





Sony Corporation

- ----------------

Sony's NEWS-OS 6.x is not vulnerable.





Sun Microsystems, Inc.

- ---------------------



Versions of Solaris prior to 2.5 and SunOS do not support the

"environ" option and are not affected by the reported problem.





..............................................................................



Appendix B: login-wrapper Workaround



The login-wrapper program shown below is meant to be executed just before

the distributed login program. The wrapper cleans specific variables from

the environment before invoking the distributed login program.



- ------------------------cut here--8<------------------------

/*

 * This is a login wrapper that removes all instances of

 * various variables from the environment.

 *

 * Note: this program must be compiled statically to be

 * effective against exploitation.

 *

 * Author:      Lawrence R. Rogers

 *

 * 10/25/95     version 1.1     Original version

 * 10/26/95     version 1.2     ELF_ variables removed (Linux)

 * 10/27/95     version 1.3     ELF_ changed to ELF_LD_

 *                              Added AOUT_LD_ (Linux)

 *

 */



#include        



#if !defined(_PATH_LOGIN)

# define                _PATH_LOGIN     "/bin/login.real"

#endif



main (argc, argv, envp)

int argc;

char **argv, **envp;

{

        register char **p1, **p2;



        for (p1 = p2 = envp; *p1; p1++) {

                if (strncmp(*p1, "LD_", 3) != 0 &&

                    strncmp(*p1, "_RLD", 4) != 0 &&

                    strncmp(*p1, "LIBPATH=", 8) != 0 &&

                    strncmp(*p1, "ELF_LD_", 7) != 0 &&

                    strncmp(*p1, "AOUT_LD_", 8) != 0 &&

                    strncmp(*p1, "IFS=", 4) != 0 ) {

                            *p2++ = *p1;

                }

        }

        *p2 = 0;

        execve(_PATH_LOGIN, argv, envp);

        perror(_PATH_LOGIN);

        exit(1);

}

- ------------------------cut here--8<------------------------



The following two examples show how to compile the login-wrapper for SGI's

IRIX 5.3 and FreeBSD 2.x systems. The examples move the distributed login

program to a new location and install the wrapper in the standard location.

When executed, the wrapper first cleanses the environment and then calls

the relocated, distributed login program.



Note 1: The wrapper must be compiled statically. On SGI's IRIX system,

compiling statically requires that the non-shared versions of libraries

be installed. Consult your system documentation to determine how to do

this.



Note 2: You may need to change the _PATH_LOGIN variable to define where

the real login program resides on your system. On some systems, login

resides in /usr/bin/login.



Compiling for IRIX 5.3

- ----------------------

# uname -a

IRIX test 5.3 11091812 IP22 mips

# /bin/ls -l /usr/lib/iaf/scheme

- -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     sys        65832 Sep  9 14:24 /usr/lib/iaf/scheme

# /bin/cc -non_shared -O -D_PATH_LOGIN=\"/usr/lib/iaf/scheme.real\" \

        login-wrapper.c -o login-wrapper

# /bin/mv /usr/lib/iaf/scheme /usr/lib/iaf/scheme.real

# /bin/chmod 755 /usr/lib/iaf/scheme.real

# /bin/mv login-wrapper /usr/lib/iaf/scheme

# /bin/chmod 4755 /usr/lib/iaf/scheme

# /bin/chown root /usr/lib/iaf/scheme

# /bin/chgrp  sys /usr/lib/iaf/scheme

# /bin/ls -lL /usr/lib/iaf/scheme /usr/lib/iaf/scheme.real

- -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     sys        65832 Sep  9 14:24

/usr/lib/iaf/scheme.real

- -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     sys       213568 Oct 30 08:42 /usr/lib/iaf/scheme



Compiling for FreeBSD 2.x

- -------------------------

# /bin/ls -lg /usr/bin/login

- -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  bin  20480 Jun 10 20:00 /usr/bin/login

# /usr/bin/cc -D_PATH_LOGIN=\"/usr/bin/login.real\" -static \

        -O login-wrapper.c -o login-wrapper

# /bin/mv /usr/bin/login /usr/bin/login.real

# /bin/chmod 555 /usr/bin/login.real

# /bin/mv login-wrapper /usr/bin/login

# /bin/chmod 4555 /usr/bin/login

# /usr/sbin/chown root.bin /usr/bin/login

# /bin/ls -lg /usr/bin/login /usr/bin/login.real

- -r-sr-xr-x  1 root  bin  24885 Oct 25 22:14 /usr/bin/login

- -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  bin  20480 Jun 10 20:00 /usr/bin/login.real





- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

The CERT Coordination Center staff thanks Eric Halil of AUSCERT, Wolfgang

Ley of DFNCERT, and Sam Hartman of the MIT Kerberos Development team for

their support in responding to this problem.

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------



If you believe that your system has been compromised, contact the CERT

Coordination Center or your representative in the Forum of Incident

Response and Security Teams (FIRST).



If you wish to send sensitive incident or vulnerability information to

CERT staff by electronic mail, we strongly advise that the email be

encrypted.  The CERT Coordination Center can support a shared DES key, PGP

(public key available via anonymous FTP on info.cert.org), or PEM (contact

CERT staff for details).



Internet email: cert@cert.org

Telephone: +1 412-268-7090 (24-hour hotline)

           CERT personnel answer 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EST(GMT-5)/EDT(GMT-4),

           and are on call for emergencies during other hours.

Fax: +1 412-268-6989



Postal address:  CERT Coordination Center

                 Software Engineering Institute

                 Carnegie Mellon University

                 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

                 USA



CERT advisories and bulletins are posted on the USENET newsgroup

comp.security.announce. If you would like to have future advisories and

bulletins mailed to you or to a mail exploder at your site, please send mail

to cert-advisory-request@cert.org.



Past CERT publications, information about FIRST representatives, and

other information related to computer security are available for anonymous

FTP from info.cert.org.



- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------



Copyright 1995, 1996 Carnegie Mellon University. Conditions for use,

disclaimers, and sponsorship information can be found in

http://www.cert.org/legal_stuff.html and http://ftp.cert.org/pub/legal_stuff .

If you do not have FTP or web access, send mail to cert@cert.org with

"copyright" in the subject line.



CERT is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.





~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Revision history



Oct. 30, 1997  Updated vendor information for Sun.

Sep. 26, 1997  Updated copyright statement

Aug. 30, 1996  Information previously in the README was inserted

               into the advisory.

Mar. 22, 1996  Appendix A, SGI -  Modified information for Silicon Graphics.

Feb. 08, 1996  Appendix A, NEC -  Added patch information.

Nov. 08, 1995  Appendix A, IBM - Added an entry for IBM.

                          Linux - Added information about Slackware Linux.

                          NetBSD - Corrected compilation instructions.

                          SCO - Noted SCO is not vulnerable.

                          SGI - Updated information.

                          Sun - Added an entry.

Nov. 08, 1995  Appendix B - Replaced IRIX 5.3 section with new material.





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