IRIX fam service Vulnerability

Solution:
A suitable temporary solution may be to disable the fam service. It is executed by inetd. Simply comment out the entry in /etc/inetd.conf, make sure all instances of fam are killed, and restart inetd.

On March 1, 2000, SGI released an advisory on this vulnerability. Fix information was contained within it.



 

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