Published:
03 January 2001
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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2001.003 -- SGI Security Advisory
SGI Security FTP Repository Moved
4 January 2001
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Vendor: SGI
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SGI Security Advisory
Title: SGI Security FTP Repository Moved
Number: 20001201-01-I
Date: December 26, 2000
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SGI provides this information freely to the SGI user community for its
consideration, interpretation, implementation and use. SGI recommends
that this information be acted upon as soon as possible.
SGI provides the information in this Security Advisory on an "AS-IS" basis
only, and disclaims all warranties with respect thereto, express, implied
or otherwise, including, without limitation, any warranty of merchantability
or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall SGI be liable for
any loss of profits, loss of business, loss of data or for any indirect,
special, exemplary, incidental or consequential damages of any kind arising
from your use of, failure to use or improper use of any of the instructions
or information in this Security Advisory.
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- - --- Issue Specifics ---
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Due to the retirement of sgigate.sgi.com's FTP services, the
FTP location for SGI security advisories and patches has moved.
The old location for SGI security advisories was
ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/security/
and for SGI security patches was
ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/patches/
The new location for SGI security advisories and patches is
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/
Please change your bookmarks to reflect this change.
The SGI Security Headquarters Web page remains the same at the URL:
http://www.sgi.com/support/security/
IRIX 6.5 Maintenance Release Streams can still be found at the URL:
http://support.sgi.com/colls/patches/tools/relstream/index.html
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- - --- Solution ---
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The primary SGI anonymous FTP site for security advisories and patches
is patches.sgi.com (216.32.174.211). Security advisories and patches
are located under the URL ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/
Patches are available via the web, anonymous FTP and from your SGI
service/support provider.
SGI Security Advisories can be found at:
http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/
SGI Security Patches can be found at:
http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/
SGI patches for IRIX can be found at the following patch servers:
http://support.sgi.com/irix/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/
SGI freeware updates for IRIX can be found at:
http://freeware.sgi.com/
SGI fixes for SGI open sourced code can be found on:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/
SGI patches and RPMs for Linux can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/linux/ and click on patches link and
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgilinux-combined/download/security-fixes/
SGI patches for Windows NT or 2000 can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/nt/
IRIX 5.2-6.4 Recommended/Required Patch Sets can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/irix/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/patchset/
IRIX 6.5 Maintenance Release Streams can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/colls/patches/tools/relstream/index.html
The primary SGI anonymous FTP site for security advisories and patches
is patches.sgi.com (216.32.174.211). Security advisories and patches
are located under the URL ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/
For security and patch management reasons, ftp.sgi.com (mirrors
patches.sgi.com security FTP repository) lags behind and does not
do a real-time update.
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- - --- Acknowledgments ---
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SGI wishes to thank the SGI CORP I/S Network Operations Center for
their assistance in this matter.
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- - --- SGI Security Information/Contacts ---
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If there are questions about this document, email can be sent to
cse-security-alert@sgi.com.
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SGI provides security information and patches for use by the entire SGI
community. This information is freely available to any person needing
the information and is available via anonymous FTP and the Web.
The primary SGI anonymous FTP site for security advisories and patches
is patches.sgi.com (216.32.174.211). Security advisories and patches
are located under the URL ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/
The SGI Security Headquarters Web page is accessible at the URL
http://www.sgi.com/support/security/
For issues with the patches on the FTP sites, email can be sent to
cse-security-alert@sgi.com.
For assistance obtaining or working with security patches, please
contact your SGI support provider.
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SGI provides a free security mailing list service called wiretap and
encourages interested parties to self-subscribe to receive (via email) all
SGI Security Advisories when they are released. Subscribing to the mailing
list can be done via the Web (http://www.sgi.com/support/security/wiretap.html)
or by sending email to SGI as outlined below.
% mail wiretap-request@sgi.com
subscribe wiretap <YourEmailAddress>
end
^d
In the example above, <YourEmailAddress> is the email address that you
wish the mailing list information sent to. The word end must be on a
separate line to indicate the end of the body of the message. The
control-d (^d) is used to indicate to the mail program that you are
finished composing the mail message.
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SGI provides a comprehensive customer World Wide Web site. This site is
located at http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ .
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For reporting *NEW* SGI security issues, email can be sent to
security-alert@sgi.com or contact your SGI support provider. A
support contract is not required for submitting a security report.
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This information is provided freely to all interested parties
and may be redistributed provided that it is not altered in any
way, SGI is appropriately credited and the document retains and
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