Security Alert writes:
> PROBLEM:  Vulnerability with specific incoming ICMP Echo Request (ping)
>           packets.

...deletia...

>           Apply patch NSTEDL8A to systems running MPE/iX Release 5.5
>             and its Powerpatches (C.55.00 through C.55.02).

NSTEDL8A *does* protect against the Ping of Death.  But, as I mentioned in a
previous posting, NSTEDL8A exposes an uninitalized variable elsewhere in the
networking code which will break bootp.

I have received beta patch NSTEDQ1A which supersedes NSTEDL8A and is supposed
to fix the bootp problem too.  I probably won't be able to install and test
it until Tuesday 7/15, so I will post then with my results.
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