SGI IRIX 6.3 - 'Systour' / 'OutOfBox' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/470/info A vulnerability exists in both the Systour and OutOfBox susbsystems included with new installs of IRIX 5.x and 6.x from SGI. This vulnerability allows users on the system to run arbitrary commands as root. $ rbase=$HOME; export rbase $ mkdir -p...

SGI IRIX 6.3 - Systour OutOfBox Local Privilege Escalation

SGI IRIX 6.3 - Systour OutOfBox Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/470/info A vulnerability exists in both the Systour and OutOfBox susbsystems included with new installs of IRIX 5.x and 6.x from SGI. This vulnerability allows users on the system to run arbitrary...