SGI IRIX 5.3 - 'pkgadjust' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/419/info A vulnerability exists in the pkgadjust utility shipped with Irix 5.3 from Silicon Graphics. This vulnerability can result in the compromise of the root account. % cat getroot.c int main setuid0; chown"sh",0,0; chmod"sh",04755; return 0; % cc...

SGI IRIX 5.3 - Cadmin Local Privilege Escalation

SGI IRIX 5.3 - Cadmin Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/335/info A vulnerability exists in the chost and cimport programs, as shipped with SGI's Irix 5.x operating system. chost is part of the Cadmin package. By failing to validate the real userid, these program...

SGI IRIX 5.3 - 'Cadmin' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/335/info A vulnerability exists in the chost and cimport programs, as shipped with SGI's Irix 5.x operating system. chost is part of the Cadmin package. By failing to validate the real userid, these programs allow any user to edit protected files, such as...

BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 / FreeBSD 2.1 / IBM AIX 4.2 / SGI IRIX 6.4 / Sun SunOS 4.1.3 - Buffer Overrun

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/129/info Rdist is a program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files if possible and can update programs that are executing. Rdist reads commands from distfile to direct the...

SGI IRIX 5.3/6.2 / SGI license_oeo 1.0 LicenseManager - 'NETLS_LICENSE_FILE' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72/info Under normal operation LicenseManager1M is a program used to view and manage FLEXlm and NetLS software licenses. Unfortunately, a set of vulnerabilities has been discovered that allows LicenseManager1M to overwrite root-owned files allowing root...

CVE-1999-1319

Vulnerability in object server program in SGI IRIX 5.2 through 6.1 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges in certain configurations...

CVE-1999-1243

SGI Desktop Permissions Tool in IRIX 6.0.1 and earlier allows local users to modify permissions for arbitrary files and gain privileges...

IRIX 5.2/6.0 - Permissions File Manipulation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1751/info The IRIX's /usr/lib/desktop/permissions tool is a suid and sgid root applications normally used by users to modify permissions of their files and files they are privileged for. A vulnerability in the permissions tool allows local malicious users...

IRIX 5.26.0 - Permissions File Manipulation

IRIX 5.26.0 - Permissions File Manipulation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1751/info The IRIX's /usr/lib/desktop/permissions tool is a suid and sgid root applications normally used by users to modify permissions of their files and files they are privileged for. A vulnerability in the...

CVE-1999-1022

serialports administrative program in IRIX 4.x and 5.x trusts the user's PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ls program, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse ls program...

CVE-1999-1219

Vulnerability in sgihelp in the SGI help system and print manager in IRIX 5.2 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges, possibly through the clogin command...

CVE-1999-1494

colorview in Silicon Graphics IRIX 5.1, 5.2, and 6.0 allows local attackers to read arbitrary files via the -text argument...

SGI IRIX 5.2/5.3 - 'serial_ports' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/464/info A race condition exists in the serialports administrative program, as included by SGI in the 5.x Irix operating system. This race condition allows regular users to execute arbitrary commands as root. cat /tmp/ls !/bin/sh cp /bin/sh /tmp/foo chmod...

SGI IRIX 5.25.3 - serial_ports Local Privilege Escalation

SGI IRIX 5.25.3 - serialports Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/464/info A race condition exists in the serialports administrative program, as included by SGI in the 5.x Irix operating system. This race condition allows regular users to execute arbitrary command...

CVE-1999-1554

/usr/sbin/Mail on SGI IRIX 3.3 and 3.3.1 does not properly set the group ID to the group ID of the user who started Mail, which allows local users to read the mail of other users...

PT-1990-1009 · Sgi · Irix

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SGI IRIX versions 3.3 through 3.3.1 Description: The issue arises from the /usr/sbin/Mail program on SGI IRIX, which fails to properly set the group ID to the group ID of the user who started Mail. This allows local users to read the mail of...