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HexView Security Advisory 2004-06-01.01

Posted Jun 18, 2004

Authored by HexView, SGI Security Coordinator | Site support.sgi.com

SGI Security Advisory 20040601-01-P - Adam Gowdiak from the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center has reported that under certain conditions non privileged users can use the syssgi system call SGI_IOPROBE to read and write kernel memory which can be used to obtain root user privileges. Patches have been released for this and other issues. At this time, IRIX versions 6.5.20 to 6.5.24 are considered susceptible.

tags | advisory, kernel, root

systems | irix

advisories | CVE-2004-0135, CVE-2004-0136, CVE-2004-0137

SHA-256 | c311575509d77e140256db203b3431dabc5c01cfb4dd8d1e624c66a52ee8d789

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