A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in SGI IRIX (Operating System). This vulnerability affects an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument HOSTALIASES as part of a Environment Variable leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in SGI IRIX 6.5.11 through 6.5.15f allows local users to cause privileged applications to dump core via the HOSTALIASES environment variable, which might allow the users to gain privileges.

The issue has been introduced in 02/01/2001. The weakness was released 03/28/2002 by FIRST (Website). The advisory is available at patches.sgi.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2002-0040. The exploitation appears to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 420 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (8669). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 18045.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• SGI

Name

• IRIX

Version

• 6.5
• 6.5.1
• 6.5.2
• 6.5.3
• 6.5.4
• 6.5.5
• 6.5.6
• 6.5.7
• 6.5.8
• 6.5.9
• 6.5.10
• 6.5.11f
• 6.5.11m
• 6.5.12f
• 6.5.12m
• 6.5.13f
• 6.5.13m
• 6.5.14f
• 6.5.14m
• 6.5.15f
• 6.5.15m

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• commercial

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• end of life

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