SGI IRIX up to 6.5.10m XFS Filesystem Reorganizer privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in SGI IRIX. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component XFS Filesystem Reorganizer. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2002-0356. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in SGI IRIX (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component XFS Filesystem Reorganizer. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in XFS filesystem reorganizer (fsr_xfs) in SGI IRIX 6.5.10 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges by overwriting critical system files.

The weakness was disclosed 05/29/2002 (Website). The advisory is shared at patches.sgi.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2002-0356. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (9042) and SecurityFocus (BID 4706†). The entry VDB-18196 is pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• SGI

Name

• IRIX

Version

• 6.5
• 6.5.1
• 6.5.2
• 6.5.2f
• 6.5.2m
• 6.5.3
• 6.5.3f
• 6.5.3m
• 6.5.4
• 6.5.4f
• 6.5.4m
• 6.5.5
• 6.5.5f
• 6.5.5m
• 6.5.6
• 6.5.6f
• 6.5.6m
• 6.5.7
• 6.5.7f
• 6.5.7m
• 6.5.8
• 6.5.8f
• 6.5.8m
• 6.5.9
• 6.5.9f
• 6.5.9m
• 6.5.10
• 6.5.10f
• 6.5.10m

License

• commercial

Support

• end of life (old version)

Website

• Vendor: http://www.sgi.com/

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