SGI IRIX up to 6.5.20m Name Service Daemon denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in SGI IRIX. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Name Service Daemon. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-0176. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in SGI IRIX (Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Name Service Daemon. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

The Name Service Daemon (nsd), when running on an NIS master on SGI IRIX 6.5.x through 6.5.20f, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a UDP port scan.

The issue has been introduced in 08/01/1998. The weakness was disclosed 08/18/2003 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at patches.sgi.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2003-0176 since 03/28/2003. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1843 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.

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Productinfo

Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• SGI

Name

• IRIX

Version

• 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
• 6.5.15f
• 6.5.15m
• 6.5.16f
• 6.5.16m
• 6.5.17f
• 6.5.17m
• 6.5.18f
• 6.5.18m
• 6.5.19f
• 6.5.19m
• 6.5.20f
• 6.5.20m

License

• commercial

Support

• end of life (old version)

Website

• Vendor: http://www.sgi.com/

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