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IRIX Telnet protocol options vulnerability
From: SGI Security Coordinator <agent99 () sgi com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:33:05 -0700 (PDT)
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SGI Security Advisory
Title: IRIX Telnet protocol options vulnerability
Number: 20010801-01-P
Date: August 22, 2001
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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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- --- Issue Specifics ---
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The TESO crew (http://www.team-teso.net/) has reported via BUGTRAQ that
a buffer overflows have been discovered in telnet options 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 telnet daemon is installed by default on IRIX.
A local user account on the vulnerable system is not required in order
to exploit telnet daemon. The telnet daemon can be exploited remotely
over an untrusted network.
The exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability could lead to a root
compromise.
This telnet vulnerability was reported by TESO crew on BUGTRAQ:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/197804
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3064
This telnet options 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.
================
**** 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
%
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- --- 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.x unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.0.x unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.1 unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.2 unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.3 unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.4 unknown Note 1
IRIX 6.5 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.1 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.2 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.3 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.4 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.5 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.6 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.7 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.8 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.9 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.10 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.11 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.12 yes 4354 Note 2 & 3
IRIX 6.5.13 yes 4354 Note 3 & 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) IRIX 6.5.13m can be obtained from the web at:
http://support.sgi.com/colls/patches/tools/relstream/index.html
or from your local SGI support provider.
Patches are available via the web, anonymous FTP and from your SGI
service/support provider.
SGI Security Advisories can be found at:
http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/
SGI Security Patches can be found at:
http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/
SGI patches for IRIX can be found at the following patch servers:
http://support.sgi.com/irix/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/
SGI freeware updates for IRIX can be found at:
http://freeware.sgi.com/
SGI fixes for SGI open sourced code can be found on:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/
SGI patches and RPMs for Linux can be found at:
http://support.sgi.com/linux/ or
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/colls/patches/tools/relstream/index.html
The primary SGI anonymous FTP site for security advisories and patches
is patches.sgi.com (216.32.174.211). Security advisories and patches
are located under the URL ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/
For security and patch management reasons, ftp.sgi.com (mirrors
patches.sgi.com security FTP repository) lags behind and does not
do a real-time update.
##### Patch File Checksums ####
The actual patch will be a tar file containing the following files:
Filename: README.patch.4354
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 15107 8 README.patch.4354
Algorithm #2 (sum): 41401 8 README.patch.4354
MD5 checksum: 3CA0032F2299AD2A98D442C600786BB5
Filename: patchSG0004354
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 06094 4 patchSG0004354
Algorithm #2 (sum): 9048 4 patchSG0004354
MD5 checksum: 8ADD66265D2EE6C687A0DF2304E13033
Filename: patchSG0004354.eoe_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 59132 59 patchSG0004354.eoe_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 64895 59 patchSG0004354.eoe_sw
MD5 checksum: 7A8688D3C7D562EB33AAF3DE4159BF92
Filename: patchSG0004354.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 05247 1 patchSG0004354.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 34625 1 patchSG0004354.idb
MD5 checksum: D5A2AD9BA16DEC191853B1A562DDA953
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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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security-info () sgi com.
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