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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in SGI IRIX up to 6.4 (Operating System). This affects an unknown code block of the component startmidi. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
irix startmidi program allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
The weakness was released 02/01/1997 by David Hedley as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at patches.sgi.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-1999-0959. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.
After 2 weeks, there has been an exploit disclosed.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at SecurityFocus (BID 469) and X-Force (1634). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 14095.
Product
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Vendor
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.0
VulDB Base Score: 8.4
VulDB Temp Score: 8.0
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Exploiting
Class: Privilege escalationCWE: CWE-269
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
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Timeline
02/01/1997 🔍02/01/1997 🔍
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04/09/2004 🔍
06/17/2014 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: http://www.sgi.com/Advisory: patches.sgi.com
Researcher: David Hedley
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-1999-0959 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 469 - IRIX startmidi Vulnerabilty
X-Force: 1634
OSVDB: 8447 - IRIX startmidi Symlink Arbitrary File Modification
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Entry
Created: 06/18/2014 12:48 AMUpdated: 05/18/2018 10:07 AM
Changes: (9) vulnerability_cvss2_nvd_av vulnerability_cvss2_nvd_ac vulnerability_cvss2_nvd_au vulnerability_cvss2_nvd_ci vulnerability_cvss2_nvd_ii vulnerability_cvss2_nvd_ai exploit_date source_osvdb_create source_xforce
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