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SGI IRIX gr_osview Privilege Escalation and Information Disclosure
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA14875
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Release Date:
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2005-04-08
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Popularity:
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8,063 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | SGI IRIX 6.5.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-0464
CVE-2005-0465
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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in SGI IRIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges and disclose some sensitive information.
1) An error in gr_osview, where permissions are not correctly verified, can be exploited to write system usage information to arbitrary files via the "-s" option.
2) An error in gr_osview, where permissions are not correctly verified when opening description files specified by the user, can be exploited to disclose the first line of arbitrary files via the "-d" and "-D" options.
The vulnerabilities have been reported in IRIX version 6.5.21m, 6.5.21f, and 6.5.22 through 6.5.27.
Solution:
Apply patches.
IRIX 6.5.23:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/6.5.23/patch5869.tar
IRIX 6.5.24:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/6.5.24/patch5869.tar
IRIX 6.5.25:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/6.5.25/patch5869.tar
IRIX 6.5.26:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/6.5.26/patch5869.tar
IRIX 6.5.27:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/6.5.27/patch5869.tar
Provided and/or discovered by:
Discovered by anonymous person and reported via iDEFENSE.
Original Advisory:
SGI:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20050402-01-P.asc
iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=225&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=226&type=vulnerabilities
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