SGI IRIX up to 6.5.14 Core Dump File privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in SGI IRIX up to 6.5.14. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Core Dump File Handler. This manipulation causes privileges management. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2002-1786. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in SGI IRIX up to 6.5.14 (Operating System). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Core Dump File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input 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. The summary by CVE is:

SGI IRIX 6.5 through 6.5.14 applies a umask of 022 to root core dumps, which allows local users to read the core dumps and possibly obtain sensitive information.

The issue has been introduced in 06/01/1998. The weakness was shared 12/31/2002 by FIRST (Website). The advisory is shared at patches.sgi.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2002-1786 since 06/29/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1674 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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 (10138) and SecurityFocus (BID 5737†). The entry VDB-19430 is related to this item. 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
• 6.5.3
• 6.5.4
• 6.5.5
• 6.5.6
• 6.5.7
• 6.5.8
• 6.5.9
• 6.5.10
• 6.5.11
• 6.5.12
• 6.5.13
• 6.5.14

License

• commercial

Support

• end of life (old version)

Website

• Vendor: http://www.sgi.com/

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