IRIX systour removal may allow a local attacker root access
| irix-systour (7456) |  High Risk |
Description:
The systour SGI Indigo Magic System Tour package demonstrates the Indigo Magic User Environment. The user can remove the tour with the RemoveSystemTour program, which is setuid root. A local attacker can manipulate environment variables and configuration files to execute arbitrary commands on the system as root.
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
No remedy available as of February 6, 2010.
References:
- AusCERT Advisory AA-96.08: Vulnerability in SGI systour package.
- SGI Security Advisory 19961101-01-I: Possible Vulnerabilities in systour and OutOfBox.
- BID-470: IRIX Systour and OutOfBox Vulnerabilities
- CVE-1999-1384: Indigo Magic System Tour in the SGI system tour package (systour) for IRIX 5.x through 6.3 allows local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse .exitops program, which is called by the inst command that is executed by the RemoveSystemTour program.
Platforms Affected:
- SGI IRIX 5.0
- SGI IRIX 5.0.1
- SGI IRIX 5.1
- SGI IRIX 5.1.1
- SGI IRIX 5.2
- SGI IRIX 5.3 XFS
- SGI IRIX 5.3
- SGI IRIX 6.0
- SGI IRIX 6.0.1 XFS
- SGI IRIX 6.0.1
- SGI IRIX 6.1
- SGI IRIX 6.2
- SGI IRIX 6.3
Reported:
Nov 07, 1996
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