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Silicon Graphics Inc. Security Advisory
Title: IRIX ordist Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
Number: 19970509-02-PX
Date: August 5, 1997
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for its consideration, interpretation, implementation and use. Silicon
Graphics recommends that this information be acted upon as soon as possible.
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- --- Issue Specifics ---
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The ordist(1c) program is used to maintain identical copies of files
over multiple hosts. The program is setuid root and as part of normal
usage accepts user arguments to establish specific ordist operation.
It has been determined that an appropriately crafted set of arguments
could be input to the ordist program allowing execution of arbitrary
user commands with root privileges. This resulting buffer overflow
condition is considered a security vulnerability in the ordist program.
Silicon Graphics Inc. has investigated the issue and recommends the
following steps for neutralizing the exposure. It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
that these measures be implemented on ALL SGI systems. This issue will
be corrected in future releases of IRIX.
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- --- Impact ---
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The ordist program (/usr/bsd/ordist) is installed on all IRIX systems by
default.
A local account is required in order to exploit this vulnerability both
locally and remotely.
This vulnerability can be utilized to execute commands with root
privileges.
This vulnerability has been publically discussed in Usenet newsgroups
and mailing lists by several individuals and reported in AUSCERT Advisory
AA-97.23 and CERT Advisory CA-97.21.
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- --- Temporary Solution ---
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Although patches are available for this issue, it is realized that
there may be situations where installing the patches immediately may
not be possible.
The steps below can be used to remove the vulnerability by removing
the permissions of the ordist program.
1) Become the root user on the system.
% /bin/su -
Password:
#
2) Change the permissions on the ordist program.
# /bin/chmod 500 /usr/bsd/ordist
************
*** NOTE ***
************
Removing the setuid root permissions from the ordist
program will prevent non-root users from using the ordist
program including any user level programs utilizing the
the ordist program.
3) Return to previous level.
# exit
$
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- --- Solution ---
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OS Version Vulnerable? Patch # Other Actions
---------- ----------- ------- -------------
IRIX 3.x no
IRIX 4.x no
IRIX 5.0.x yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 5.1.x yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 5.2 yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 5.3 yes 2212
IRIX 6.0.x yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 6.1 yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 6.2 yes 2213
IRIX 6.3 yes 2213
IRIX 6.4 yes 2213
NOTES
1) upgrade operating system or see "Temporary Solution" section.
Patches are available via anonymous FTP and your service/support provider.
The SGI anonymous FTP site is sgigate.sgi.com (204.94.209.1) or its
mirror, ftp.sgi.com. Security information and patches can be found
in the ~ftp/security and ~ftp/patches directories, respectfully.
##### Patch File Checksums ####
The actual patch will be a tar file containing the following files:
Filename: README.patch.2212
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 55665 8 README.patch.2212
Algorithm #2 (sum): 21084 8 README.patch.2212
MD5 checksum: 63D2F78F2A053FBCF20B7B4F261F69E6
Filename: patchSG0002212
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 30446 1 patchSG0002212
Algorithm #2 (sum): 25510 1 patchSG0002212
MD5 checksum: 34C8AFD6D5AF0C8DC8186340DF0FB5F6
Filename: patchSG0002212.eoe2_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 35919 83 patchSG0002212.eoe2_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 21443 83 patchSG0002212.eoe2_sw
MD5 checksum: 24BCC0E339DA5E77EE02DABB80CD25CD
Filename: patchSG0002212.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 27980 1 patchSG0002212.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 35351 1 patchSG0002212.idb
MD5 checksum: 669956DF29236E6F575F53CBAC36120C
Filename: README.patch.2213
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 43157 8 README.patch.2213
Algorithm #2 (sum): 25429 8 README.patch.2213
MD5 checksum: 5EBFCA7C2A62CCF9ABC21A0AE35C65ED
Filename: patch2213.pgp.and.chksums
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 26202 3 patch2213.pgp.and.chksums
Algorithm #2 (sum): 28902 3 patch2213.pgp.and.chksums
MD5 checksum: E9973C7F6877C589FC0C87C548BC98AA
Filename: patchSG0002213
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 45834 1 patchSG0002213
Algorithm #2 (sum): 28307 1 patchSG0002213
MD5 checksum: 8DEC766B3F70C64C89CC1A486A5F969F
Filename: patchSG0002213.eoe_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 54215 83 patchSG0002213.eoe_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 35616 83 patchSG0002213.eoe_sw
MD5 checksum: 296C50BAF715BCE2A593990E4EF60EE9
Filename: patchSG0002213.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 43355 1 patchSG0002213.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 35527 1 patchSG0002213.idb
MD5 checksum: 98DC9A6AEA6C4FAE34433EEBE5C84A6F
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- --- Acknowledgments ---
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Silicon Graphics wishes to thank the worldwide Internet community and the
AUSCERT and CERT Coordination Center organizations for their assistance
in this matter.
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