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HERMES, PRINT, RIS, WINSWW and macserver.eecs offline for patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 14, 2006. HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching the following Wednesday, March 15, 2006, from 3:00p–5:00p.

macserver.eecs.berkeley.edu, which hosts the Mac software warehouse, will be down for maintenance at this time as well.

Power outage this morning caused service outage

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Around 8:00 this morning parts of campus, including Soda and Cory halls, lost power for about an hour. This affected all of the computing and infrastructure services in EECS.

IDSG and network staff are working to restore computing and network services to the department. Many have been restored already and the rest should follow shortly.

We appreciate your patience as we continue to recover from the outage. For further details, please see the UC Berkeley newscenter.

MAC Server Down

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Macserver is down, we apologize for the inconvenience. IDSG and Apple are working to bring it back, hopefully some time tomorrow. If you require software on macserver please send IDSG an email. Thank you for your patience.
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Microsoft Security Bulletin for February 2006

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 14, 2006

Issued: February 14, 2006

Version Number: 1.0

Security patches defined by Microsoft as “critical” or “important”
MUST be applied within 10 business days of notification. Should there
be active exploits, the time will be adjusted and users will be
informed appropriately. Hosts unpatched after the defined time are
subject to scanning and removal from the EECS network as per campus IT security policies.

Patching is sometimes dependent on the service pack level of the
Microsoft OS, and installed applications, please read requirements
carefully.

Critical Security Bulletins

MS06-004—Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (910620)

Impact: Remote Code Execution

Affected Software:

  • Windows 2000 Service Pack 4

MS06-005—Vulnerability in Windows Media Player Could Allow Remote Code Execution (911565)

Impact: Remote Code Execution

Affected Software:

  • Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
  • Windows XP Service Pack 1
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2
  • Windows Server 2003

Important Security Bulletins

MS06-006—Vulnerability in Windows Media Player Plug-in with Non-Microsoft Internet Browsers Could Allow Remote Code Execution
(911564)

Impact: Remote Code Execution

Affected Software:

  • Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
  • Windows XP Service Pack 1
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2
  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
  • Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

MS06-007—Vulnerability in TCP/IP Could Allow Denial of Service
(913446)

Impact: Remote Denial of Service

Affected Software:

  • Windows XP Service Pack 1
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2
  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
  • Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

MS06-008—Vulnerability in Web Client Service Could Allow Remote
Code Execution (911927)

Impact: Remote Code Execution

Affected Software:

  • Windows XP Service Pack 1
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2
  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
  • Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

MS06-009—Vulnerability in the Korean Input Method Editor Could
Allow Elevation of Privilege (901190)

Impact: Elevation of Privilege

Affected Software:

  • Windows XP Service Pack 1
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2
  • Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems
  • Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
  • Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2
  • Microsoft Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Packs
  • Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Multilingual User Interface Packs
  • Microsoft Office Project 2003 Multilingual User Interface Packs
  • Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools
  • Microsoft Office Visio 2003
  • Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
  • Microsoft Office Project 2000

MS06-010—Vulnerability in PowerPoint 2000 Could Allow Information Disclosure (889167)

Impact: Information Disclosure

Affected Software:

  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000

BWRC Network Downtime

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BWRC network will be down on Monday, February 13th and Tuesday, February 14th.

BWRC has been running on the original Bay Networks data switch hardware since the Center opened. We will transfer all data traffic to the new Extreme Networks “Alpine” switch. One to two days disruption will be involved for a significant fraction of the BWRC client machines.

During the initial part of the transfer process (2-4 hours), there will be no network connectivity at BWRC. After the initial period, all core servers and services should be back on line.

During the remainder of the process we will be hooking up the data connections for the regular BWRC clients. This is likely to last into a second day. Please use the EECS wireless network while you are waiting for your deskside machine to be hooked up.

If you have an urgent need for the earliest possible access, please reply indicating which port or cubicle you need access for and what the nature of the urgency is. We’ll review and give these requests priority as is possible.

Please make your plan accordingly.

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ICMP blocked from off campus networks to EECS

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In an effort to thwart continued ICMP attacks through our firewall, we have temporarily blocked ICMP from off campus networks to EECS.

This post will be updated when we return to our normal configuration.