SGI IRIX 5.2/5.3 serial_ports Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://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...

CVE-1999-1022

CVE-1999-1022 affects the IRIX serial_ports administrative program on IRIX 4.x/5.x. It trusts the user’s PATH to locate ls, enabling a local user to gain root privileges with a Trojan horse ls. No remediation details are provided in the supplied documents.

CVE-1999-1022: Undefined Security Weakness

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...

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...