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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2002.078 -- SGI Security Advisory
Network Queuing Environment (NQE) vulnerabilities
18 February 2002
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: Network Queuing Environment (NQE) 3.3.0.15
Network Queuing Environment (NQE) 3.3.0.16
Vendor: SGI
Operating System: IRIX
Impact: Root Compromise
Access Required: Remote
Ref: ESB-2002.017
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SGI Security Advisory
Title: Network Queuing Environment (NQE) vulnerabilities
Number: 20020101-02-I
Date: February 15, 2002
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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.
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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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- - --- Update ---
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SGI's Network Queuing Environment (NQE) product was Retired on
November, 2001 and will be Expired on November, 2002.
Please refer to the customer letter sent November 2001 for more
information: http://support.sgi.com/news/support/007-4500-001.html
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in NQE, refer to
SGI Security Advisory 20020101-01-I:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20020101-01-I
Both SGI IRIX and Cray Unicos NQE products share a similar code base.
As a courtesy to our customers, SGI has coordinated with Cray, Inc.
to release a fix for 3.3.0.15 and 3.3.0.16 releases of NQE.
However, due to the retirement of the SGI NQE product this fix is
unsupported by SGI, but is available for free at the normal security
patch distribution site:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/unsupported/NQE-unsupported.tar.gz
Please follow the instructions in the README of the tar file.
No installation support will be provided for this fix, therefore
this fix is not available as an IRIX inst image.
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- - --- Issue Specifics ---
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It has been reported on Security Focus's BugTraq mailing list that CRAY's
NQS Network Queuing System contains multiple format string vulnerabilities.
In the past, SGI has sold a version of NQS called "NQE - Network Queuing
Environment", and through investigations has determined that NQE has
vulnerabilities.
See http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/242663 for details on the
CRAY / UNICOS version of this issue.
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.
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- - --- Impact ---
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The most current version of the NQE package that was sold by SGI is
3.3.0.16. This version is subject to the vulnerabilities described above.
As of November 2001, NQE has been classified as a "Retired" product and
is not currently available from SGI. NQE is still supported by SGI, but
it is no longer under development by SGI Engineering, and there will be
no further patches or fixes for it.
Further information about SGI support policies can be found at the following
URL: http://support.sgi.com/news/swmodes.html
These vulnerabilities can lead to a root compromise of the system running
NQE package.
A local user account on the vulnerable system is not required in order
to exploit these vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities can be exploited
remotely.
These vulnerabilities were reported on Security Focus / BugTraq :
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/242663
These vulnerabilities have been publicly discussed in Usenet
newsgroups and security mailing lists.
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- - --- Solution ---
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These products have been retired, and SGI will not be providing
a patch for these vulnerabilities. SGI's recommendation is to
uninstall the product.
To determine if the product is installed, run the following command:
# versions -b | grep NQE
If the output returned by the command looks similar to this:
I NQE33015_Client_only 10/28/1999 N Q E 3.3.0.15 Client only
I NQE33015_Components_and_Client 10/28/1999 N Q E 3.3.0.15 Components
...then NQE is installed and the system is vulnerable.
To uninstall the product, run the following command:
# versions remove NQE*
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- - --- Information ---
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To see the current support status of any SGI product, see:
http://support.sgi.com/spk/
Support Mode Descriptions
http://support.sgi.com/news/swmodes.html
IRIX Product Support Policy
http://support.sgi.com/news/support/index.html
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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/
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http://support.sgi.com/linux/ or
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http://support.sgi.com/nt/
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http://support.sgi.com/colls/patches/tools/relstream/index.html
IRIX 6.5 Software Update CDs can be obtained from:
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do a real-time update.
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- - --- Acknowledgments ----
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SGI wishes to thank the Mickey Mouse Hacking Squadron, Security Focus and
the users of the Internet Community at large for their assistance in this
matter.
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