SGI Security Advisory 20040507-01-P - Adam Gowdiak from the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center has reported that under certain conditions the /usr/sbin/cpr binary can be forced to load a user provided library while restarting the checkpointed process which can then be used to obtain root user privileges. All versions of IRIX prior to 6.5.25 are affected.
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