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                          SGI Security Advisory

        Title:   Vulnerability in IRIX 5.3 and 6.2 objectserver
        Number:  20000303-01-PX
        Date:    March 28, 2000
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consideration, interpretation, implementation and use.   SGI recommends
that this information be acted upon as soon as possible.

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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
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or information in this Security Advisory.
______________________________________________________________________________


- -----------------------
- --- Issue Specifics ---
- -----------------------

The objectserver(1M) daemon manages Cadmin objects like disks, tapes and
user accounts. Cadmin(1M) applications like cpeople(1) use the objectserver
to add, remove or modify user accounts.

Unfortunately, a vulnerability in the objectserver(1M) daemon has been
discovered which can lead to unauthorized non-privileged user accounts
being created.

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.


- --------------
- --- Impact ---
- --------------

The objectserver(1M) daemon is installed by default on all IRIX
operating systems versions 5.1 through 6.2.

The Cadmin system administration tools were replaced with the new
"IRIX Interactive Desktop System Administration" or sysmgr(1M)
as of IRIX 6.3 and above.  This new suite of tools does not use the
objectserver daemon and therefore is not vulnerable to this issue.

A local user account is not needed in order to accomplish the exploit.

The vulnerability can be exploited remotely to create non-privileged
user accounts.

It is believed that this vulnerability in objectserver daemon has been
publicly discussed in limited forums.


- --------------------------
- --- Temporary Solution ---
- --------------------------

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 objectserver(1M) daemon to
prevent  exploitation of this vulnerability until patches can be installed.


      =================
      **** WARNING ****
      =================

      Disabling the objectserver daemon will disable the Cadmin
      system administration tools.


     1) Become the root user on the system.

                % /bin/su -
                Password:
                #

     2) Prevent the objectserver daemon from starting during boot up.

                # /sbin/chkconfig objectserver off


     3) Kill any running objectserver daemon.

                # /etc/init.d/cadmin stop; /etc/init.d/cadmin start


     4) Return to previous level.

                # exit
                %


- ----------------
- --- Solution ---
- ----------------

   OS Version     Vulnerable?     Patch #      Other Actions
   ----------     -----------     -------      -------------

   IRIX 3.x        no                           Note 1
   IRIX 4.x        no                           Note 1
   IRIX 5.0.x      not tested                   Note 1 & 3
   IRIX 5.1.x      not tested                   Note 1 & 3
   IRIX 5.2        not tested                   Note 1 & 3
   IRIX 5.3        yes              3654        Note 1 & 3
   IRIX 6.0.x      not tested                   Note 1 & 3
   IRIX 6.1        not tested                   Note 1 & 3
   IRIX 6.2        yes              2849        Note 2 & 3
   IRIX 6.3        no                           Note 1
   IRIX 6.4        no                           Note 1
   IRIX 6.5.X      no


   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.


Patches are available via the web, anonymous FTP and from your SGI
service/support provider.

IRIX 5.2-6.4 Recommended/Required Patch Sets can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/patchset/

IRIX 6.5 Maintenance Release Streams can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/relstream/

IRIX Security Patchsets can be found at:
http://www.sgi.com/Support/security/ and ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/patches/

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.


                 ##### Patch File Checksums ####

The actual patch will be a tar file containing the following files:

Filename:                 README.patch.3654
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    27220 15 README.patch.3654
Algorithm #2 (sum):       4882 15 README.patch.3654
MD5 checksum:             97B310927A815099930075777E45F0AB

Filename:                 patchSG0003654
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    13216 11 patchSG0003654
Algorithm #2 (sum):       42485 11 patchSG0003654
MD5 checksum:             CF4F3CA358644BBD6F36DC2F0C91B9C8

Filename:                 patchSG0003654.cadmin_man
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    54103 7 patchSG0003654.cadmin_man
Algorithm #2 (sum):       16960 7 patchSG0003654.cadmin_man
MD5 checksum:             594C00039327C1762A9F5A2D1720EF0A

Filename:                 patchSG0003654.cadmin_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    15104 1074 patchSG0003654.cadmin_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum):       39843 1074 patchSG0003654.cadmin_sw
MD5 checksum:             774EEE90311849A0084AFC254332E04A

Filename:                 patchSG0003654.eoe1_man
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    24451 12 patchSG0003654.eoe1_man
Algorithm #2 (sum):       4655 12 patchSG0003654.eoe1_man
MD5 checksum:             7B690D29231DD4401845369CF88B080E

Filename:                 patchSG0003654.eoe1_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    07943 6 patchSG0003654.eoe1_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum):       58262 6 patchSG0003654.eoe1_sw
MD5 checksum:             D13FA81DF060BE27DA6F0478CA4D0476

Filename:                 patchSG0003654.eoe2_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    45591 135 patchSG0003654.eoe2_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum):       49343 135 patchSG0003654.eoe2_sw
MD5 checksum:             49F553F9DEFC8F92AEC00ECFEB5CABE6

Filename:                 patchSG0003654.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    64120 4 patchSG0003654.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum):       33224 4 patchSG0003654.idb
MD5 checksum:             865C1DEB578E9263BC9ACF7A7F986E34


Filename:                 README.patch.2849
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    58617 11 README.patch.2849
Algorithm #2 (sum):       56244 11 README.patch.2849
MD5 checksum:             AAED31676F184DDC39360AF8E3494246

Filename:                 patchSG0002849
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    25053 3 patchSG0002849
Algorithm #2 (sum):       34738 3 patchSG0002849
MD5 checksum:             97A1CF82E5229C45C40FA24D08707640

Filename:                 patchSG0002849.cadmin_man
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    12331 15 patchSG0002849.cadmin_man
Algorithm #2 (sum):       61762 15 patchSG0002849.cadmin_man
MD5 checksum:             ED8E55A93BEEFBB1639C41310622329F

Filename:                 patchSG0002849.cadmin_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    02890 1076 patchSG0002849.cadmin_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum):       41534 1076 patchSG0002849.cadmin_sw
MD5 checksum:             3B7F7C508F2D0FB744006AFCD37E34D6

Filename:                 patchSG0002849.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r):    31363 2 patchSG0002849.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum):       18526 2 patchSG0002849.idb
MD5 checksum:             20BE7747F40CAE11C34621CC3D128678


- ------------------------
- --- Acknowledgments ----
- ------------------------

SGI wishes to thank the CERT Coordination Center, US Army, MIT Security
Group and the University of Chicago Network Security Center
for their assistance in this matter.


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