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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2001.367 -- SGI Security Advisory
File globbing vulnerability in ftpd
29 August 2001
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: ftpd
Vendor: SGI
Operating System: IRIX
Impact: Root Compromise
Access Required: Remote
Ref: ESB-2001.145
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SGI Security Advisory
Title: File globbing vulnerability in ftpd
Number: 20010802-01-P
Reference: CERT® Advisory CA-2001-07
Reference: CVE CAN-2001-0247
Date: August, 28 2001
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SGI provides this information freely to the SGI user community for its
consideration, interpretation, implementation and use. SGI recommends
that this information be acted upon as soon as possible.
SGI 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.
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- - --- Issue Specifics ---
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NAI COVERT Labs reported a file globbing vulnerability in ftpd daemon
which can lead to a root compromise.
SGI 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 ---
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The ftpd(1M) daemon is installed by default on IRIX.
A local user account on the vulnerable system is not required in order
to exploit ftpd daemon. The ftpd daemon can be exploited remotely over
an untrusted network.
The exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability can lead to a root compromise.
NAI Covert Labs reported the ftp server vulnerability:
http://www.pgp.com/research/covert/advisories/048.asp
The ftpd vulnerability was also reported by CERT® Advisory CA-2001-07:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-07.html
This ftpd vulnerability was assigned the following CVE:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2001-0247
This ftpd 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.
The steps below can be used to disable the ftpd(1M) daemon to prevent
exploitation of this vulnerability until patches can be installed.
=================
**** WARNING ****
=================
These steps will disable the ftp server.
1) Become the root user on the system.
% /bin/su -
Password:
#
2) Edit the file /etc/inetd.conf and place a "#" as the first
character of the ftp line to comment out and deactivate the
service.
# vi /etc/inetd.conf
{Find the following line}
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/ftpd ftpd -l
{Place a "#" as the first character of the ftp line}
#ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/ftpd ftpd -l
{Save the file and exit}
3) Force inetd to re-read the configuration file.
# /etc/killall -HUP inetd
4) Kill any existing ftpd process.
# /etc/killall ftpd
5) Return to previous level.
# exit
%
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- - --- Solution ---
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OS Version Vulnerable? Patch # Other Actions
---------- ----------- ------- -------------
IRIX 3.x unknown Note 1
IRIX 4.x unknown Note 1
IRIX 5.x unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.0.x unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.1 unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.2 unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.3 unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.4 unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.5 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.1 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.2 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.3 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.4 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.5 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.6 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.7 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.8 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.9 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.10 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.11 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.12 yes 4270 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.13 no Note 4 & 5
NOTES
1) This version of the IRIX operating has been retired.
Upgrade to an actively supported IRIX operating system.
See http://support.sgi.com/irix/news/index.html#policy
for more information.
2) This version of the IRIX operating system is in maintenance mode.
Upgrade to an actively supported IRIX operating system.
See http://support.sgi.com/irix/news/index.html#policy
for more information.
3) See "Temporary Solution" section.
4) Download the IRIX 6.5.13 Maintenance Release Stream from the URL:
http://support.sgi.com/colls/patches/tools/relstream/index.html
5) If you have not received an IRIX 6.5.X CD for IRIX 6.5, contact your
SGI Support Provider or URL: http://support.sgi.com/irix/swupdates/
Patches are available via the web, anonymous FTP and from your SGI
service/support provider.
SGI Security Advisories can be found at:
http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/
SGI Security Patches can be found at:
http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/
SGI patches for IRIX can be found at the following patch servers:
http://support.sgi.com/irix/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/
SGI freeware updates for IRIX can be found at:
http://freeware.sgi.com/
SGI fixes for SGI open sourced code can be found on:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/
SGI patches and RPMs for Linux can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/linux/ or
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgilinux-combined/download/security-fixes/
SGI patches for Windows NT or 2000 can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/nt/
IRIX 5.2-6.4 Recommended/Required Patch Sets can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/irix/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/patchset/
IRIX 6.5 Maintenance Release Streams can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/colls/patches/tools/relstream/index.html
IRIX 6.5 Software Update CDs can be obtained from:
http://support.sgi.com/irix/swupdates/
The primary SGI anonymous FTP site for security advisories and patches
is patches.sgi.com (216.32.174.211). Security advisories and patches
are located under the URL ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/
For security and patch management reasons, ftp.sgi.com (mirrors
patches.sgi.com security FTP repository) lags behind and does not
do a real-time update.
##### Patch File Checksums ####
The actual patch will be a tar file containing the following files:
Filename: README.patch.4270
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 12497 8 README.patch.4270
Algorithm #2 (sum): 34418 8 README.patch.4270
MD5 checksum: EBF634B7F6C4B87F7E0178F26EAFEE5A
Filename: patchSG0004270
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 18303 4 patchSG0004270
Algorithm #2 (sum): 56841 4 patchSG0004270
MD5 checksum: 08A70D53F1FC81E4AB4B462394BF2CA1
Filename: patchSG0004270.eoe_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 63206 117 patchSG0004270.eoe_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 11262 117 patchSG0004270.eoe_sw
MD5 checksum: 8F359DA297E29553FA0D281BA1FB1110
Filename: patchSG0004270.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 59260 1 patchSG0004270.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 33639 1 patchSG0004270.idb
MD5 checksum: 6CBBF5B738604C469A017C881646071D
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- - --- Acknowledgments ----
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SGI wishes to thank the NAI COVERT Labs, CERT Coordination Center and
the users of the Internet Community at large for their assistance
in this matter.
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security-info@sgi.com.
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