SGI IRIX GR_OSView Information Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:13057

Info

SGI IRIX GR_OSView Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 13057
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2005-0464
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Apr 07 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 12:56PM
Credit: Discovery is credited to an anonymous researcher.
Vulnerable: SGI IRIX 6.5.22 m
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

SGI IRIX GR_OSView Information Disclosure Vulnerability

gr_osview is reported prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. This issue can help a local attacker to obtain sensitive information such as exposing an administrator's password hash and carrying out other attacks.

This issue has been confirmed in SGI IRIX 6.5.22 maintenance release. Other versions of IRIX may be vulnerable as well.

Exploit / POC

SGI IRIX GR_OSView Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

The following proof of concpet is available:
gr_osview -d -D /etc/shadow

Solution / Fix

SGI IRIX GR_OSView Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
It is reported that the vendor has acknowledged this issue and released patches to address it. This cannot be confirmed at the moment. Please contact the vendor for more information.

Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

SGI IRIX GR_OSView Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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