IRIX pmpost vulnerability

SGI Security Advisory Title: pmpost vulnerability Number: 20010601-01-I Date: June 24, 2002 Reference: SGI Security Advisory 20010601-01-A Reference: CVE-2001-0823 - ----------------------- - --- Issue Specifics --- - ----------------------- It's been reported that the Performance Co-Pilot...

CVE-2001-0823

The CVE-2001-0823 entry documents a local privilege escalation in the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) package via the pmpost utility, prior to version 2.2.1-3. An attacker can exploit a symlink attack on the NOTICES file in the PCP log directory (PCP_LOG_DIR) to gain root/privilege access. The underly...

Символьные линки в pmpost (symbolic link)

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pmpost - another nice symlink follower

Hi, there is a symlink handling problem in the pcp suite from SGI. The binary pmpost will follow symlinks, if setuid root this leads to instant root compromise, as found on SuSE 7.1 I doubt that this a default SuSE package, though. Attached a simple C source to demonstrate this gcc pm.c -o pm the...

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.x2.2 - pmpost Symbolic Link

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.x2.2 - pmpost Symbolic Link // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2887/info Performance Co-Pilot PCP is a set of services to support system-level performance monitoring developed by SGI. It has traditionally been an IRIX product, however SGI has made it open...

SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.1.x/2.2 - pmpost Symbolic Link

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2887/info Performance Co-Pilot PCP is a set of services to support system-level performance monitoring developed by SGI. It has traditionally been an IRIX product, however SGI has made it open source and it is now available for Linux systems. One of th...