CVE-1999-0960: High severity SGI IRIX vulnerability

Published Mar 20, 1998
·
Updated

IRIX cdplayer allows local users to create directories in arbitrary locations via a command line option.

Affected Software

7 affected components
SGI IRIX=5
SGI IRIX=6.0
SGI IRIX=6.0.1
SGI IRIX=6.1
SGI IRIX=6.2
SGI IRIX=6.3
SGI IRIX=6.4

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Remove

    Remove sgi/irix/cdplayer from your environment.

    Uninstall or remove the cdplayer utility from affected IRIX systems if it is not required.

  2. Compensating control

    Prevent untrusted local users from invoking cdplayer by restricting access to the binary (use filesystem permissions or ACLs to limit execution to administrative/trusted accounts) and limit which local accounts can log in to hosts running IRIX.

Event History

Mar 20, 1998
CVE Published
05:00 AM
Data Sourced
via NVD·05:00 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software
Jan 4, 2000
CVE Published
via MITRE·10:00 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·10:00 AM
Description

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