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Silicon Graphics Inc. Security Advisory
Title: IRIX LOCKOUT and login/scheme Buffer Overrun
Title: AUSCERT AA-97.12 and CERT CA-97.15
Title: AUSCERT AA-97.22 and CERT CA-97.21
Number: 19970508-02-PX
Date: September 15, 1997
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Silicon Graphics provides this information freely to the SGI user community
for its consideration, interpretation, implementation and use. Silicon
Graphics recommends that this information be acted upon as soon as possible.
Silicon Graphics provides the information in this Security Advisory on
an "AS-IS" basis only, and disclaims all warranties with respect thereto,
express, implied or otherwise, including, without limitation, any warranty
of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall
Silicon Graphics be liable for any loss of profits, loss of business, loss
of data or for any indirect, special, exemplary, incidental or consequential
damages of any kind arising from your use of, failure to use or improper
use of any of the instructions or information in this Security Advisory.
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- --- Issue Specifics ---
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This advisory covers two security issues that were public reported as
two different issues. Both these issues have been addressed together
by Silicon Graphics.
The first issue has to do with the LOCKOUT functionality of the login(1)
program. When the LOCKOUT value is set to a value greater than zero, an
account will be locked when that value of unsuccessful login attempts
has been made by the same user. Due to an error in the login verification
process when LOCKOUT is enabled, files may be created or corrupted.
This resulting file manipulation is considered a security vulnerability.
The second related issue has to do with the login(1) program itself.
Actually, the /usr/bin/login file is a symbolic link to the
/usr/lib/iaf/scheme that is used at the startup of all terminal sessions
to identify users to each session. Since arguments can be given to this
program as part of use, it has been determined that an appropriately
crafted set of arguments could be input to the login/scheme program
allowing execution of arbitrary user commands with root privileges.
This resulting buffer overflow condition is considered a security
vulnerability.
Silicon Graphics Inc. has investigated these issues and recommends the
following steps for neutralizing the exposure. It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
that these measures be implemented on ALL SGI systems. These issues will
be corrected in future releases of IRIX.
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- --- Impact ---
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The scheme program and login symbolic link to the scheme program are
installed by default on all IRIX systems. The LOCKOUT variable
in the /etc/default/login is set to zero as default.
For these vulnerabilities, a local account is not required.
Furthermore, the vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely.
A local account is required in order to exploit these vulnerabilities
both locally and remotely.
Utilizing the LOCKOUT vulnerability, random files can be created
and corrupted.
Both of these security issues have been publically disclosed and
discussed in several public forums including the BUGTRAQ mailing list.
Additionally, security advisories AUSCERT AA-97.12, CERT CA-97.15,
AUSCERT AA-97.22 and CERT CA-97.21 have been publically released
on the issues.
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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.
Although there are no SGI provided workarounds for the login/scheme
issue, the steps below can be used to remove the LOCKOUT vulnerability
by disabling the LOCKOUT functionality.
1) Become the root user on the system.
% /bin/su -
Password:
#
2) Edit the file /etc/default/login and place a "#" as
the first character of the LOCKOUT line to comment out
and deactivate the service.
# vi /etc/default/login
{Find the following line}
LOCKOUT=3
{The value can be any number greater than 0.}
{Place a "#" as the first character of the LOCKOUT line}
#LOCKOUT=3
{Save the file and exit}
4) Return to previous level.
# exit
$
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- --- Solution ---
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Since two security issues are addressed with the following patches,
the "Vulnerable?" column below means that either one or both of
the vulnerabilities exist in that OS version.
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 2216
IRIX 6.0.x yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 6.1 yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 6.2 yes 2181
IRIX 6.3 yes 2232
IRIX 6.4 yes 2233
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.2216
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 13912 12 README.patch.2216
Algorithm #2 (sum): 20179 12 README.patch.2216
MD5 checksum: FA1A32EE675B3719020F845B4C0B8F45
Filename: patchSG0002216
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 03669 3 patchSG0002216
Algorithm #2 (sum): 18776 3 patchSG0002216
MD5 checksum: 7DA08E2147BEB9E49229B015DCB61895
Filename: patchSG0002216.eoe1_man
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 31290 33 patchSG0002216.eoe1_man
Algorithm #2 (sum): 62564 33 patchSG0002216.eoe1_man
MD5 checksum: 8EEF9215B03E7DB99D8011D41B7D6E1B
Filename: patchSG0002216.eoe1_sw
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Algorithm #2 (sum): 3649 73 patchSG0002216.eoe1_sw
MD5 checksum: 5C38961E861E986DE49EFF5C3BECD641
Filename: patchSG0002216.eoe2_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 22903 46 patchSG0002216.eoe2_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 55667 46 patchSG0002216.eoe2_sw
MD5 checksum: BFCE3A01BB0181626E79E584EB19525B
Filename: patchSG0002216.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 12991 3 patchSG0002216.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 18240 3 patchSG0002216.idb
MD5 checksum: E384459949E4B24C34591C786367B050
Filename: README.patch.2181
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 40529 10 README.patch.2181
Algorithm #2 (sum): 15557 10 README.patch.2181
MD5 checksum: 7FBE5B1971162512C1D409E6D4BB9C71
Filename: patchSG0002181
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 40880 2 patchSG0002181
Algorithm #2 (sum): 60865 2 patchSG0002181
MD5 checksum: 1F5CAA24C48D48D586486009871F275E
Filename: patchSG0002181.eoe_man
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Filename: patchSG0002181.eoe_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 24729 73 patchSG0002181.eoe_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 474 73 patchSG0002181.eoe_sw
MD5 checksum: B92BC59995D99EFB60160F208F9A71B9
Filename: patchSG0002181.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 19924 2 patchSG0002181.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 59251 2 patchSG0002181.idb
MD5 checksum: 4EAE11E46FFAC4B09963C6BE466A7A72
Filename: README.patch.2232
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 30727 12 README.patch.2232
Algorithm #2 (sum): 55743 12 README.patch.2232
MD5 checksum: DD9402D2434B1513A3B9886D70CD9243
Filename: patchSG0002232
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 55916 3 patchSG0002232
Algorithm #2 (sum): 20486 3 patchSG0002232
MD5 checksum: FE63680542E429EA91D33AA15EB06537
Filename: patchSG0002232.eoe_man
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 43804 36 patchSG0002232.eoe_man
Algorithm #2 (sum): 27383 36 patchSG0002232.eoe_man
MD5 checksum: 6EE21B2D5362295BDC20D5F84BA7DEC4
Filename: patchSG0002232.eoe_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 03690 421 patchSG0002232.eoe_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 11833 421 patchSG0002232.eoe_sw
MD5 checksum: C5AD8C10999347F8FA67871B5B98CB63
Filename: patchSG0002232.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 38374 4 patchSG0002232.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 4337 4 patchSG0002232.idb
MD5 checksum: 0610B31450652A09F343E2B1ED3E939A
Filename: README.patch.2233
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 51881 11 README.patch.2233
Algorithm #2 (sum): 41695 11 README.patch.2233
MD5 checksum: 5D7F90A9AE9F2A483059E6D8D08DF317
Filename: patch2233.pgp.and.chksums
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 00000 0 patch2233.pgp.and.chksums
Algorithm #2 (sum): 0 0 patch2233.pgp.and.chksums
MD5 checksum: D41D8CD98F00B204E9800998ECF8427E
Filename: patchSG0002233
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 18405 3 patchSG0002233
Algorithm #2 (sum): 23610 3 patchSG0002233
MD5 checksum: 462695A8E5958C4B6A78960F001A2351
Filename: patchSG0002233.eoe_man
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 43804 36 patchSG0002233.eoe_man
Algorithm #2 (sum): 27383 36 patchSG0002233.eoe_man
MD5 checksum: 6EE21B2D5362295BDC20D5F84BA7DEC4
Filename: patchSG0002233.eoe_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 24542 347 patchSG0002233.eoe_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 6782 347 patchSG0002233.eoe_sw
MD5 checksum: B5D1408146E7B71B1F5A8290ABCF5A4F
Filename: patchSG0002233.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 50085 3 patchSG0002233.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 41850 3 patchSG0002233.idb
MD5 checksum: B41E8A31941E47BD46682CFB4641882F
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- --- Acknowledgments ---
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Silicon Graphics Inc. wishes to thank AUSCERT and the CERT Coordination
Center and the Internet community for their assistance in these issues.
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