RPC-XDR flaw affects multiple operating systems

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CERT announced a vulnerability in Sun Microsystems' Sun RPC (remote
procedures call) library. It affects some implementations of Kerberos. This
library is available on the 400. Read this article to see if you might be
affected.

Does anyone know IBM's position, yet? Do they use these libraries?

http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220020819mco01.htm&fromtm=e101-6


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RPC-XDR flaw affects multiple operating systems - WARNING