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Secunia Advisory SA10095

SGI IRIX NFS Unauthorised Resource Access Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA10095
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Release Date 2003-10-29
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where From local network
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
SGI IRIX 6.5.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2003-0683 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

SGI has reported a vulnerability in IRIX, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass access restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in NFS, which may allow people to access restricted resources. This can be exploited on certain configurations where the "root,rw" access options in "/etc/exports" contain only IP addresses and domain name suffixes with wildcards and no explicit hostnames or netgroups.

The vulnerability only affects versions 6.5.21m/f.


Solution
Upgrade to version 6.5.22 or apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20031004-01-P.asc

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