Published:
12 March 1998
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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-98.040 -- SGI Security Advisory 19980301-01-PX
startmidi/stopmidi, datman/cdman, cdplayer Vulnerabilities
13th March 1998
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Silicon Graphics Inc. has released the following advisory concerning
vulnerabilities in startmidi/stopmidi, datman/cdman and cdplayer programs.
With a local account, these buffer overrun vulnerabilities can be exploited
locally and remotely. These buffer overrun vulnerabilities can be utilized
to execute commands with root privileges.
These vulnerabilities have been previously addressed in AUSCERT advisories:
AA-96.11 - SGI IRIX cdplayer Vulnerability
AA-96.20 - SGI IRIX datman/cdman Vulnerability
AA-97.05 - SGI IRIX startmidi/stopmidi Vulnerability
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Silicon Graphics Inc. Security Advisory
Title: startmidi/stopmidi, datman/cdman, cdplayer Vulnerabilities
Title: AUSCERT AA-96.11, AUSCERT AA-96.20 and AUSCERT AA-97.05
Number: 19980301-01-PX
Date: March 11, 1998
______________________________________________________________________________
Silicon Graphics provides this information freely to the SGI user community
for its consideration, interpretation, implementation and use. Silicon
Graphics recommends that this information be acted upon as soon as possible.
Silicon Graphics provides the information in this Security Advisory on
an "AS-IS" basis only, and disclaims all warranties with respect thereto,
express, implied or otherwise, including, without limitation, any warranty
of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall
Silicon Graphics be liable for any loss of profits, loss of business, loss
of data or for any indirect, special, exemplary, incidental or consequential
damages of any kind arising from your use of, failure to use or improper
use of any of the instructions or information in this Security Advisory.
______________________________________________________________________________
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- - --- Issue Specifics ---
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Under normal operation, the IRIS Digital Media Execution Environment and
related subsystems provide software to support Silicon Graphic's Multimedia
(audio, MIDI, video, compression and movie) hardware.
Unfortunately, several buffer overruns which could allow arbitrary
commands to be run as the privileged user root have been discovered in the
following Digital Media Tools: startmidi/stopmidi(1), datman/cdman(1),
cdplayer(1) and the CDROM Confidence Test program.
Respectfully, the startmidi/stopmidi(1) programs control the MIDI
daemon, the datman/cdman(1) programs control audio CD and DAT tape
operations, the cdplayer(1) program plays audio CDs on a CD-ROM drive,
and the CDROM Confidence Test tool verifies the CDROM is working properly.
Silicon Graphics Inc. has investigated the issue and recommends the
following steps for neutralizing the exposure. It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
that these measures be implemented on ALL SGI systems. This issue will
be corrected in future releases of IRIX.
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- - --- Impact ---
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The IRIS Digital Media Execution software and related subsystems and are
loaded by default on all IRIX systems. The Digital Media Tools on
IRIX 5.X and IRIX 6.X are vulnerable to these buffer overflows.
With a local account, these buffer overrun vulnerabilities can be exploited
locally and remotely.
These buffer overrun vulnerabilities can be utilized to execute commands with
root privileges.
These vulnerabilities has been publically discussed in Usenet newsgroups
and mailing lists and also reported in AUSCERT AA-96.11, AA-96.20 and AA-97.05
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- - --- Temporary Solution ---
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Although patches are available for this issue, it is realized that
there may be situations where installing the patches immediately may
not be possible.
The steps below can be used to remove the vulnerabilities by changing
the permissions of the vulnerable programs.
1) Become the root user on the system.
% /bin/su -
Password:
#
2) Change the permissions on the vulnerable programs.
On All IRIX Releases
# /bin/chmod 500 /usr/sbin/datman
# /bin/chmod 500 /usr/sbin/Confidence/cdrom
On IRIX 5.3 Only
# /bin/chmod 500 /usr/sbin/startmidi
On IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.2
# /bin/chmod 500 /usr/bin/X11/cdplayer
On IRIX 6.3 and IRIX 6.4
# /bin/chmod 500 /usr/sbin/datplayer
# /bin/chmod 500 /usr/bin/X11/cdheadphone
************
*** NOTE ***
************
Removing the permissions from the vulnerable programs will
prevent non-root users from using the vulnerable programs.
3) Return to previous level.
# exit
$
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- - --- Solution ---
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OS Version Vulnerable? Patch # Other Actions
---------- ----------- ------- -------------
IRIX 3.x no
IRIX 4.x no
IRIX 5.0.x yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 5.1.x yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 5.2 yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 5.3 yes 2563
IRIX 6.0.x yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 6.1 yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 6.2 yes 2564
IRIX 6.3 yes 2565
IRIX 6.4 yes 2291
NOTES
1) upgrade operating system or see "Temporary Solution" section.
Patches are available via anonymous FTP and your service/support provider.
The SGI anonymous FTP site is sgigate.sgi.com (204.94.209.1) or its
mirror, ftp.sgi.com. Security information and patches can be found
in the ~ftp/security and ~ftp/patches directories, respectfully.
##### Patch File Checksums ####
The actual patch will be a tar file containing the following files:
Filename: README.patch.2563
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Filename: patchSG0002563
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MD5 checksum: 23E2FD7D5C7762F4D2B7DB43D2F4DC0B
Filename: patchSG0002563.desktop_eoe_sw
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MD5 checksum: ED3403B0CFF39C22236493F6F27D35EA
Filename: patchSG0002563.dmedia_eoe_sw
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MD5 checksum: 8FA8DBB16A50BADC6C30539FB4F781A5
Filename: patchSG0002563.dmedia_tools_sw
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MD5 checksum: 4B7568DE78B07ED50EE41C6D0804030A
Filename: patchSG0002563.eoe2_sw
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MD5 checksum: 0E8DC3A5F5716440E065F7EA45D663B9
Filename: patchSG0002563.idb
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MD5 checksum: 962FB5E6BA16F8AB0F8B6A016D59184E
Filename: README.patch.2564
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 34028 9 README.patch.2564
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MD5 checksum: E4674E474941BE71057588CACDE10DDB
Filename: patchSG0002564
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Filename: patchSG0002564.desktop_eoe_sw
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Filename: patchSG0002564.dmedia_eoe_sw
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MD5 checksum: AB34E9C0C1865778ADE576D2E2AFF75A
Filename: patchSG0002564.eoe_sw
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Algorithm #2 (sum): 57504 252 patchSG0002564.eoe_sw
MD5 checksum: C00F91E8CCC468693D6B0B500E7D6C03
Filename: patchSG0002564.idb
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Algorithm #2 (sum): 16316 8 patchSG0002564.idb
MD5 checksum: EF9810A1C10E06CDE22B2BB88202D3DD
Filename: README.patch.2565
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 31164 14 README.patch.2565
Algorithm #2 (sum): 34494 14 README.patch.2565
MD5 checksum: FC8A8F31517252DBE11DF961E60E1A0D
Filename: patchSG0002565
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 48368 7 patchSG0002565
Algorithm #2 (sum): 52893 7 patchSG0002565
MD5 checksum: 40B36A34F28FFBE7E356D1FA581DE39E
Filename: patchSG0002565.desktop_eoe_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 56716 46 patchSG0002565.desktop_eoe_sw
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MD5 checksum: C0975BFFCCA459F4E4DD65DDBC1EFAFC
Filename: patchSG0002565.dmedia_eoe_sw
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MD5 checksum: DD8F49EDD0226A4CF673CA5E2397DE3A
Filename: patchSG0002565.eoe_sw
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Algorithm #2 (sum): 27743 228 patchSG0002565.eoe_sw
MD5 checksum: FF3A4E5544CB78AEBACF3DD40914BB1A
Filename: patchSG0002565.idb
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MD5 checksum: 85C7411466FF2A833781C4DC6B7AD468
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MD5 checksum: 139B633A63728FF57FF6A902747299C0
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Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 40374 33 README.patch.2291
Algorithm #2 (sum): 40054 33 README.patch.2291
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Filename: patchSG0002291.desktop_eoe_sw
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MD5 checksum: 9AF97B0870ECF0AA2C55BD0E7F229BE0
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MD5 checksum: 700D287F5A02173EFD68B34E7434AF68
Filename: patchSG0002291.dmedia_dev_src
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 32452 201 patchSG0002291.dmedia_dev_src
Algorithm #2 (sum): 62658 201 patchSG0002291.dmedia_dev_src
MD5 checksum: DC371E55D70A262B06BB9E42CACA44C5
Filename: patchSG0002291.dmedia_dev_sw
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MD5 checksum: A941345B943078F98B77E64AC2E86618
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- - --- Acknowledgments ---
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Silicon Graphics wishes to thank AUSCERT and the Internet community
for their assistance in this matter.
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- - --- Silicon Graphics Inc. Security Information/Contacts ---
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If there are questions about this document, email can be sent to
cse-security-alert@sgi.com.
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respectively. The Silicon Graphics Security Headquarters Web page is
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