Patching the patches

From: Joseph V. Morris (jvmorris_at_erols.com)
Date: 05/23/04


Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 08:15:56 -0400

It appears that Symantec may now have fixed this problem. See
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10312609~mode=flat , which apparently
came out late on Friday evening.

Have any of the NIS/NPF 2002 users that experienced the problem after the 12
May LiveUpdate applied this patch; does it solve the problem?

Next question: Does this fix, primarily for NIS/NPF 2002 users, still
provide a solution to the eEYE vulnerabilities that started all this?
(Anyone checked using eEYE's Retina scanner?)

And finally, by way of feedback, just what files are changed by this update?



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