From agent99@sgi.com Wed Mar 3 22:11:16 2004 From: SGI Security Coordinator To: agent99@sgi.com Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com, vulnwatch@vulnwatch.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.announce, comp.security.unix, comp.sys.sgi.admin, comp.security.announce Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:36:37 -0800 Subject: SGI Advanced Linux Environment security update #13 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ____________________________________________________________________________ SGI Security Advisory Title : SGI Advanced Linux Environment security update #13 Number : 20040301-01-U Date : March 3, 2004 Reference : Redhat Advisory RHSA-2004:090-06, CAN-2004-0110 Reference : Redhat Advisory RHSA-2004:058-08, CAN-2003-0973 Fixed in : Patch 10056 for SGI ProPack v2.4 and SGI ProPack v2.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ SGI provides this information freely to the SGI user community for its consideration, interpretation, implementation and use. 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