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QNX insecure permissions
Secunia Advisory: SA7562
Release Date: 2002-11-20
Popularity: 4,344 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.x

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Description:
QNX with latest patches has multiple system files with world read, write and execute rights set.

This could allow malicious local users to install trojan versions of the binaries.

Known affected files:/sbin/io-audio
/bin/shutdown
/sbin/fs-pkg
/usr/photon/bin/phshutdown
/usr/photon/bin/cpim
/usr/photon/bin/vpim
/usr/photon/bin/phrelaycfg
/usr/photon/bin/columns
/usr/photon/bin/othello
/usr/photon/bin/peg
/usr/photon/bin/solitaire
/usr/photon/bin/vpoker

Solution:
Make sure that you set proper rights like 755 on the files.

To see if other files hav 777 rights use:
find / -perm -2 ! -type l -ls

Provided and/or discovered by:
1; (One Semicolon)


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