Published:
22 October 1998
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-98.164 -- SGI Security Advisory 19981005-01-A Vulnerability in IRIX autofsd 23 October 1998 =========================================================================== Silicon Graphics Inc. has released the following advisory concerning a vulnerability in IRIX autofsd. This vulnerability may allow local users to gain root access. - ---------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT------------------ - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ Silicon Graphics Inc. Security Advisory Title: Vulnerability in IRIX autofsd Title: RSI.0010.10-02-98.IRIX.AUTOFSD Number: 19981005-01-A Date: October 22, 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 SGI 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ - - ----------------------- - - --- Issue Statement --- - - ----------------------- Silicon Graphics Inc. acknowledges the vulnerability in autofsd publicly reported by RSI.0010.10-02-98.IRIX.AUTOFSD: http://www.repsec.com/advisory/0010.html For the protection of all our customers, SGI does not disclose, discuss or confirm vulnerabilities until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patch(es) are available for all currently supported vulnerable IRIX O/S. Until Silicon Graphics has more definitive information to provide, customers are encouraged to assume all security vulnerabilities as exploitable and take appropriate steps according to local site security policies and requirements. Steps to disable the autofsd daemon are found in the Temporary Solution section. Currently, Silicon Graphics Inc. is investigating and no further information is available for public release at this time. As further information becomes available, additional advisories will be issued via the normal SGI security information distribution methods including the wiretap mailing list. - - ---------------------------- - - ----- Temporary Solution --- - - ---------------------------- The steps below can be used to disable the autofs(1M) daemon. ================= **** WARNING **** ================= Disabling autofs(1M) daemon will prevent users from automatically mounting remote file systems. The automount(1M) daemon can be used as a temporary workaround. See the ONC3/NFS Administrator's Guide which is available online from the insight program or via the web: http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/ 1) Become the root user on the system. % /bin/su - Password: # 2) Verify autofs(1M) daemon is enabled. # chkconfig Flag State ==== ===== autofs on 3) Disable autofs(1M) daemon. # chkconfig autofsd off 4) Verify autofs(1M) daemon has been disabled. # chkconfig Flag State ==== ===== autofs off 5) Reboot the system # reboot - - ----------------------------------------- - - --- SGI Security Information/Contacts --- - - ----------------------------------------- If there are questions about this document, email can be sent to cse-security-alert@sgi.com. ------oOo------ Silicon Graphics provides security information and patches for use by the entire SGI community. This information is freely available to any person needing the information and is available via anonymous FTP and the Web. 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