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IRIX telnetd vulnerability
From: SGI Security Coordinator <agent99 () CSD SGI COM>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:01:41 -0700
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SGI Security Advisory
Title: IRIX telnetd vulnerability
Number: 20000801-01-P
Date: September 6, 2000
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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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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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- --- Issue Specifics ---
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The Last Stage of Delirium Group (http://lsd-pl.net/) has reported
via BUGTRAQ that an exploitable buffer overflow has been discovered in
telnetd daemon which can lead to a root compromise.
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 will be
corrected in future releases of IRIX.
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- --- Impact ---
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The telnetd daemon is installed by default on IRIX.
A local user account on the vulnerable system is not required in order
to exploit telnetd daemon. The telnetd daemon can be exploited remotely
over an untrusted network.
The exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability can lead to a root compromise.
This telnetd buffer overflow vulnerability was reported by LSD on BUGTRAQ:
http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/bugtraq0008/152.html
http://lsd-pl.net/files/get?IRIX/irx_telnetd
This telnetd vulnerability has been publicly discussed in Usenet newsgroups
and mailing lists.
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- --- Temporary Solution ---
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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 telnetd daemon to prevent
exploitation of this vulnerability until patches can be installed.
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**** NOTE ****
================
Disabling telnetd daemon will disable the telnet service.
1) Become the root user on the system.
% /bin/su -
Password:
#
2) Edit the file /etc/inetd.conf (for IRIX 5.3 and lower,
edit /usr/etc/inetd.conf) with your favorite text editor.
Place a "#" as the first character of the line to comment out
and deactivate the telnetd daemon.
# vi /etc/inetd.conf
{Find the following line}
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/telnetd telnetd
{Place a "#" as the first character of the telnet line}
#telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/telnetd telnetd
{Save the file}
3) Force inetd to re-read the configuration file.
# /etc/killall -HUP inetd
4) Kill any existing telnetd process.
# /etc/killall telnetd
5) Return to previous level.
# exit
%
- ----------------
- --- Solution ---
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OS Version Vulnerable? Patch # Other Actions
---------- ----------- ------- -------------
IRIX 3.x unknown Note 1
IRIX 4.x unknown Note 1
IRIX 5.0.x unknown Note 1
IRIX 5.1.x unknown Note 1
IRIX 5.2 yes not avail Note 1 & 3
IRIX 5.3 yes in progress Note 1 & 3
IRIX 6.0.x yes not avail Note 1 & 3
IRIX 6.1 yes not avail Note 1 & 3
IRIX 6.2 yes 4050 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.3 yes in progress Note 1
IRIX 6.4 yes in progress Note 1
IRIX 6.5 yes 4044 Note 3 & 4
IRIX 6.5.1 yes 4044 Note 3 & 4
IRIX 6.5.2 yes 4044 Note 3 & 4
IRIX 6.5.3 yes 4044 Note 3 & 4
IRIX 6.5.4 yes 4044 Note 3 & 4
IRIX 6.5.5 yes 4044 Note 3 & 4
IRIX 6.5.6 yes 4044 Note 3 & 4
IRIX 6.5.7 yes 4044 Note 3 & 4
IRIX 6.5.8 yes 4044 Note 3 & 4
IRIX 6.5.9 yes 4044 Note 3 & 4
IRIX 6.5.10 no Note 4
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.
4) If you have not received an IRIX 6.5.X CD for IRIX 6.5, contact your
SGI Support Provider or download the IRIX 6.5.X Maintenance Release
Stream from http://support.sgi.com/ or
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/relstream/
Patches are available via the web, anonymous FTP and from your SGI
service/support provider.
SGI patches for IRIX can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/irix/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/
SGI patches and RPMs for Linux can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/linux/ and click on patches link and
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgilinux-combined/download/security-fixes/
SGI patches for Windows NT or 2000 can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/nt/
IRIX 5.2-6.4 Recommended/Required Patch Sets can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/irix/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/patchset/
IRIX 6.5 Maintenance Release Streams can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/irix/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/relstream/
SGI Security Advisories can be found at:
http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/security/
SGI Security Patches 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.4044
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 60759 8 README.patch.4044
Algorithm #2 (sum): 27639 8 README.patch.4044
MD5 checksum: EEA022CD7965F3E7A3B7507F7EB408D9
Filename: patchSG0004044
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 51699 3 patchSG0004044
Algorithm #2 (sum): 35763 3 patchSG0004044
MD5 checksum: B1C88A8AC2AD2A1C2A615BABFB5462C9
Filename: patchSG0004044.eoe_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 21346 58 patchSG0004044.eoe_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 3477 58 patchSG0004044.eoe_sw
MD5 checksum: D3810601399BCA7E3140F93418C16937
Filename: patchSG0004044.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 62780 2 patchSG0004044.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 43138 2 patchSG0004044.idb
MD5 checksum: 9897A6ADBD25EF6FE306C11C4C9CA436
Filename: README.patch.4050
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 09695 31 README.patch.4050
Algorithm #2 (sum): 11029 31 README.patch.4050
MD5 checksum: 46670A77C1434CE35161779AEA0A9348
Filename: patchSG0004050
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 29875 17 patchSG0004050
Algorithm #2 (sum): 63516 17 patchSG0004050
MD5 checksum: C40B2DE50608C0A6C79C2167116FF76E
Filename: patchSG0004050.eoe_man
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 60740 74 patchSG0004050.eoe_man
Algorithm #2 (sum): 15611 74 patchSG0004050.eoe_man
MD5 checksum: C45B59724AC5F81F5960BE78104A6B9E
Filename: patchSG0004050.eoe_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 47453 1976 patchSG0004050.eoe_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 46187 1976 patchSG0004050.eoe_sw
MD5 checksum: 1D9727E9EAC3F52D56F2EC7F481D5C73
Filename: patchSG0004050.eoe_sw64
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 49580 104 patchSG0004050.eoe_sw64
Algorithm #2 (sum): 38983 104 patchSG0004050.eoe_sw64
MD5 checksum: 65A02D0562E0F41752363927E3CBC7F4
Filename: patchSG0004050.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 55544 16 patchSG0004050.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 31605 16 patchSG0004050.idb
MD5 checksum: 143E7D4B9E38E604A4F35D504FCAFF28
Filename: patchSG0004050.netman_data_man
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 56900 15 patchSG0004050.netman_data_man
Algorithm #2 (sum): 58999 15 patchSG0004050.netman_data_man
MD5 checksum: 42BEB35E700813967F637E9BB0640385
Filename: patchSG0004050.nfs_man
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 05186 17 patchSG0004050.nfs_man
Algorithm #2 (sum): 21113 17 patchSG0004050.nfs_man
MD5 checksum: F090E7476C01DC64F12F3A094EFAD64B
Filename: patchSG0004050.nfs_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 48229 83 patchSG0004050.nfs_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 63547 83 patchSG0004050.nfs_sw
MD5 checksum: 093B835EDC966A30980D914149BED1F0
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- --- Acknowledgments ----
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SGI wishes to thank the users of the Internet Community at large for their
assistance in this matter.
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