Random mumblings of an SSE Scott Howard's Weblog

The final patches for the Solaris 10 in.telnetd vulnerability are now available on SunSolve.

The patch numbers are : 

120068-02  :  Solaris 10 SPARC

120069-02  :  Solaris 10 x86/x64.

 Both patches are available from http://sunsolve.sun.com/

ISR (Interim Security Relief) patches are now available for the Solaris 10 in.telnetd vulnerability from http://sunsolve.sun.com/tpatches

 The Descriptions and readme links are currently empty, but they should be there shortly.

 The ISR's are :

IDR125456-01.zip  -  Solaris 10 SPARC
IDR125457-01.zip  -  Solaris 10 x86

Patch 120068-01 (SPARC) or 120069-01 (x86) are required patches, however none of these patches/ISR's require a reboot and they will take effect immediately.

When Dave Wischnowsky from the Chicago Tribune wrote about my 740 megapixel photo of Sydney By Night last August he called it "A skyline shot like no other", and made the comment that he hoped I would do one of Chicago in the future.

Little did he know at the time that I was already planning to be in Chicago a few months later, and had every intention of trying to produce a similar shot of Chicago!

Around a month ago I finally found the time to finish off Chicago By Night, which ended up being around the 1 gigapixel mark. When I showed it to Wischnowsky he loved it, and after a phone interview I was once again the subject of The Wisch List, this time under the heading of "Chicago's ultimage skyline shot".

Sun Explorer version 5.7 was released a few weeks ago, and is available for download from http://sunsolve.sun.com/explorer

 As well as the usual list of new features and bug fixes (full list available in the Release Notes) we've now officially added support for uploading via HTTPS through a proxy server, which we managed to miss when we first added HTTPS upload support in 5.5.

Unfortunately one bug did slip through - if you're using either the "scextended" or "alomextended" modules to connect to the system controller on an F3800->E6900 or V210/240/440 over the network, and the SC/ALOM is configured to use telnet rather than SSH then Explorer will fail to connect to the SC/ALOM.  The easiest workaround is simply to stay with Explorer 5.6 until 5.8 is released, or just configure your SC/ALOM to use SSH in stead of telnet.