Additional IRIX CDE and CDE ToolTalk Vulnerabilities update

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                          SGI Security Advisory

        Title:      Additional CDE and CDE ToolTalk Vulnerabilities
        Number:     20020302-01-A
        Date:       March 19, 2002
        Reference:  CERT CA-2001-31
        Reference:  CERT CA-1999-11
        Reference:  CERT CA-1998-11
        Reference:  SGI Security Advisory 20011107-01-P
        Reference:  SGI Security Advisory 19981101-01-PX

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As part of on going security efforts, SGI acknowledges the ToolTalk
ttsession "weak RPC authentication" and CDE dtspcd "file-system based
authentication" buffer overflows and is investigating.

These vulnerabilities were reported in CERT advisory CA-1999-11:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1999-11.html as
vulnerability #1 and #2.

No further information is available at this time.

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or confirm vulnerabilities until a full investigation has occurred and
any necessary fixes are available for all vulnerable and supported IRIX
operating systems.

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including the wiretap mailing list.


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Vulnerabilities #3 and #4 in CERT CA-1999-11, CDE vulnerabilities in CERT
CA-2001-31, along with all other CDE vulnerabilities that we are aware
of at this time, have been addressed with CDE 5.1 and patch 4416.
For details, please refer to SGI advisory 20011107-01-P:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20011107-01-P

The ToolTalk vulnerabilities in CERT CA-1998-11 have been addressed
with IRIX 6.5.3 and above. Please refer to SGI advisory 19981101-01-PX:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19981101-01-PX


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SGI wishes to thank CERT and the members of the Internet Community at
large for their assistance in this matter.


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