Published:
21 October 1998
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ESB-98.162 -- SGI Security Advisory 19981004-01-PX
IRIX routed(1M) Vulnerability
22 October 1998
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Silicon Graphics Inc. has released the following advisory concerning a
vulnerability in routed installed by default on IRIX. This vulnerability
may allow local or remote users to append routed(1M) debug tracing
information to arbitrary files on the system.
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______________________________________________________________________________
Silicon Graphics Inc. Security Advisory
Title: IRIX routed(1M) Vulnerability
Number: 19981004-01-PX
Date: October 21, 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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The routed(1M) daemon is used to manage network routing tables.
A vulnerability has been discovered in routed(1M) which allows a malicious
user to append debug and tracing information to arbitrary files on the system.
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 vulnerable SGI systems. This
issue has been corrected in future releases of IRIX.
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- - ---- Impact ---
- - ---------------
The routed(1M) daemon is installed by default on IRIX.
A local account is not needed in order to exploit this vulnerability.
The vulnerability can be exploited remotely by using carefully crafted network
packets.
The vulnerability allows a malicious user to append routed(1M) debug tracing
information to arbitrary files on the system.
This vulnerability has been publicly discussed in Usenet newsgroups
and mailing lists.
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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.
There are no workarounds for this routed(1M) vulnerability. The routed(1M)
daemon must be disabled or patches installed.
The steps below can be used to disable the routed(1M) daemon to prevent
exploitation of this vulnerability until patches can be installed.
=================
**** WARNING ****
=================
Disabling routed(1M) daemon will prevent dynamic updates of the
network routing tables. Static routes must be configured, see the
route(1M) man page for more information.
1) Become the root user on the system.
% /bin/su -
Password:
#
2) Verify routed(1M) daemon is enabled.
# chkconfig
Flag State
==== =====
routed on
3) Disable routed(1M) daemon.
# chkconfig routed off
4) Verify routed(1M) daemon has been disabled.
# chkconfig
Flag State
==== =====
routed off
5) Stop and restart all system networking daemons.
# /etc/init.d/network stop;/etc/init.d/network start
6) Return to previous user level.
# exit
%
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- - ---- Solution ---
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OS Version Vulnerable? Patch # Other Actions
---------- ----------- --------- -------------
IRIX 3.x yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 4.x yes not avail Note 1
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 2770
IRIX 6.0.x yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 6.1 yes not avail Note 1
IRIX 6.2 yes 1638 Note 2
IRIX 6.3 yes 2413 Note 2
IRIX 6.4 yes 2413 Note 2
IRIX 6.5 no
IRIX 6.5 no
IRIX 6.5.1 no
NOTES
1) Upgrade to currently supported IRIX operating system.
2) These are the base patches where the security issue was first fixed.
There may be newer rollup patches that contain the security fix and
are currently available from http://support.sgi.com/ or you SGI
support provider.
Patches are available via anonymous FTP and your service/support provider.
The primary SGI anonymous FTP site for security information and patches
is sgigate.sgi.com (204.94.209.1). Security information and patches can be
found in the ~ftp/security and ~ftp/patches directories, respectively.
For security and patch management reasons, ftp.sgi.com (mirror of sgigate) lags
behind and does not do a real-time update of ~ftp/security and ~ftp/patches
directories.
##### Patch File Checksums ####
The actual patch will be a tar file containing the following files:
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MD5 checksum: F8B97D25D2C386CB3DF9C67940B39D7E
Filename: README.patch.2770
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 50674 54 README.patch.2770
Algorithm #2 (sum): 55165 54 README.patch.2770
MD5 checksum: AF52BE0D11D1ABA533F750808B7C6976
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MD5 checksum: 12D756C9AAADDA464F628FB08B8012C2
Filename: patchSG0002770.eoe1_man
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Filename: patchSG0002770.eoe2_man
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- - -------------------------
- - ---- Acknowledgments ---
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Silicon Graphics wishes to thank the Internet community at large 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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available to any person needing the information and is available
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The primary SGI anonymous FTP site for security information and patches
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For assistance obtaining or working with security patches, please
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