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                             INFORMATION BULLETIN

                SGI IRIX LOCKOUT & login/scheme Vulnerabilities
            (Update LOCKOUT in Bulletin H-64 & login/scheme in H-62)

September 17, 1997 17:00 GMT                                      Number H-106
______________________________________________________________________________
PROBLEM:       Two vulnerabilities have been identified on the SGI IRIX
               operating systems: 1) the LOCKOUT functionality of the login(1)
               program; and 2) also in the login/scheme.
PLATFORM:      All SGI systems running IRIX 5.X and 6.X.
DAMAGE:        1) This vulnerability may allow users to create arbitrary or
               corrupt certain files on the system. 2) This vulnerability may
               allow local users to gain root privileges.
SOLUTION:      Apply patches or workarounds listed below.
______________________________________________________________________________
VULNERABILITY  Exploit information involving this vulnerability has been made
ASSESSMENT:    publicly available. Silicon Graphics HIGHLY RECOMMENDS that
               this information be acted upon as soon as possible.
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                Silicon Graphics Inc. Security Advisory

        Title:   IRIX LOCKOUT and login/scheme Buffer Overrun
        Title:   AUSCERT AA-97.12 and CERT CA-97.15
        Title:   AUSCERT AA-97.22 and CERT CA-97.21
        Number:  19970508-02-PX
        Date:    September 15, 1997
______________________________________________________________________________

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 ---
- ------------------------

This advisory covers two security issues that were public reported as
two different issues.  Both these issues have been addressed together
by Silicon Graphics.

The first issue has to do with the LOCKOUT functionality of the login(1)
program.  When the LOCKOUT value is set to a value greater than zero, an
account will be locked when that value of unsuccessful login attempts
has been made by the same user.  Due to an error in the login verification
process when LOCKOUT is enabled, files may be created or corrupted.
This resulting file manipulation is considered a security vulnerability.

The second related issue has to do with the login(1) program itself.
Actually, the /usr/bin/login file is a symbolic link to the
/usr/lib/iaf/scheme that is used at the startup of all terminal sessions
to identify users to each session.  Since arguments can be given to this
program as part of use, it has been determined that an appropriately
crafted set of arguments could be input to the login/scheme program
allowing execution of arbitrary user commands with root privileges.
This resulting buffer overflow condition is considered a security
vulnerability.

Silicon Graphics Inc. has investigated these issues and recommends the
following steps for neutralizing the exposure.  It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
that these measures be implemented on ALL SGI systems.  These issues will
be corrected in future releases of IRIX.


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

The scheme program and login symbolic link to the scheme program are
installed by default on all IRIX systems.   The LOCKOUT variable
in the /etc/default/login is set to zero as default.

For these vulnerabilities, a local account is not required.
Furthermore, the vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely.

A local account is required in order to exploit these vulnerabilities
both locally and remotely.

Utilizing the LOCKOUT vulnerability, random files can be created
and corrupted.

Both of these security issues have been publically disclosed and
discussed in several public forums including the BUGTRAQ mailing list.
Additionally, security advisories AUSCERT AA-97.12, CERT CA-97.15,
AUSCERT AA-97.22 and CERT CA-97.21 have been publically released
on the issues.


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- ---- 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.

Although there are no SGI provided workarounds for the login/scheme
issue, the steps below can be used to remove the LOCKOUT vulnerability
by disabling the LOCKOUT functionality.


     1) Become the root user on the system.

                % /bin/su -
                Password:
                #

     2) Edit the file /etc/default/login and place a "#" as
     the first character of the LOCKOUT line to comment out
     and deactivate the service.


                # vi  /etc/default/login

        {Find the following line}

             LOCKOUT=3

        {The value can be any number greater than 0.}
        {Place a "#" as the first character of the LOCKOUT line}

             #LOCKOUT=3

        {Save the file and exit}


     4) Return to previous level.

                # exit
                $


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

Since two security issues are addressed with the following patches,
the "Vulnerable?" column below means that either one or both of
the vulnerabilities exist in that OS version.


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

   IRIX 3.x          no
   IRIX 4.x          no
   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          2216
   IRIX 6.0.x        yes          not avail    Note 1
   IRIX 6.1          yes          not avail    Note 1
   IRIX 6.2          yes          2181
   IRIX 6.3          yes          2232
   IRIX 6.4          yes          2233


   NOTES

     1) upgrade operating system or see "Temporary Solution" section.



Patches are available via anonymous FTP and your service/support provider.

The SGI anonymous FTP site is sgigate.sgi.com (204.94.209.1) or its
mirror, ftp.sgi.com.   Security information and patches can be found
in the ~ftp/security and ~ftp/patches directories, respectfully.



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

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


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MD5 checksum:             0610B31450652A09F343E2B1ED3E939A



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

Silicon Graphics Inc. wishes to thank AUSCERT and the CERT Coordination
Center and the Internet community for their assistance in these issues.



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If there are questions about this document, email can be sent to
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                      ------oOo------

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The primary SGI anonymous FTP site for security information and patches
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