-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- __________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Performer API Search Tool 2.2 pfdispaly.cgi Vulnerability April 3, 1998 22:00 GMT Number I-041 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: SGI has identified a vulnerability in the IRIS Performer API Search Tool, pfdispaly.cgi (sic). PLATFORM: IRIX 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4. DAMAGE: If exploited, may allow any user to view files on the vulner- able system with privileges of the user "nobody". A local account is not required and can be exploited remotely. SOLUTION: Apply patches or workaround. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY Silicon Graphics Inc. has investigated the issue and recommends ASSESSMENT: the following steps for neutralizing the exposure. It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that these measures be implemented on ALL vulner- able SGI systems. ______________________________________________________________________________ [ Start Silicon Graphics Inc. Advisory ] - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ Silicon Graphics Inc. Security Advisory Title: Performer API Search Tool 2.2 pfdispaly.cgi Vulnerability Number: 19980401-01-P3018 Date: April 2, 1998 ______________________________________________________________________________ Silicon Graphics provides this information freely to the SGI user community for its consideration, interpretation, implementation and use. Silicon Graphics recommends that this information be acted upon as soon as possible. Silicon Graphics provides the information in this Security Advisory on an "AS-IS" basis 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 Silicon Graphics 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 from your use of, failure to use or improper use of any of the instructions or information in this Security Advisory. ______________________________________________________________________________ - ------------------------ - ---- Issue Specifics --- - ------------------------ The IRIS Performer API Search Tool is a web based search tool that assists in searching of man pages, documents, example code, and special items known as classes, methods, tokens and samples. Once installed, it can be accessed locally by http://localhost/performer Unfortunately, a vulnerability in pfdispaly.cgi (sic) has been discovered which could allow any user to view files on the vulnerable system with privileges of the user "nobody". Silicon Graphics Inc. 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 IRIS Performer. - --------------- - ---- Impact --- - --------------- The IRIS Performer API Search Tool software subsystem (performer_tools) is loaded by default when installing the IRIX Performer 2.2 CD on IRIX 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 For this particular vulnerability, a local account is not required and can be exploited remotely. This vulnerability can be utilized to view files on the local system with the user privileges of "nobody". This vulnerability has been publically discussed in Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists. - --------------------------- - ---- Temporary Solution --- - --------------------------- 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 remove the vulnerability by changing the permissions of the vulnerable program. 1) Become the root user on the system. % /bin/su - Password: # 2) Change the permissions on the vulnerable program. # /bin/chmod 500 /var/www/cgi-bin/pfdispaly.cgi ************ *** NOTE *** ************ Removing the permissions from the vulnerable program will prevent non-root users from accessing pfdispaly.cgi. 3) Verify the new permissions on the program. # ls -al /var/www/cgi-bin/pfdispaly.cgi -r-x------ 1 root sys 1393 Mar 17 17:00 pfdispaly.cgi 4) Return to previous level. # exit $ - ----------------- - ---- Solution --- - ----------------- OS Version Vulnerable? Patch # Other Actions ---------- ----------- ------- ------------- IRIX 3.x no IRIX 4.x no IRIX 5.0.x no IRIX 5.1.x no IRIX 5.2 no IRIX 5.3 no IRIX 6.0.x no IRIX 6.1 no IRIX 6.2 yes 3018 IRIX 6.3 yes 3018 IRIX 6.4 yes 3018 Patches are available via anonymous FTP and your service/support provider. The SGI anonymous FTP site is sgigate.sgi.com (204.94.209.1) or its mirror, ftp.sgi.com. Security information and patches can be found in the ~ftp/security and ~ftp/patches directories, respectfully. ##### Patch File Checksums #### The actual patch will be a tar file containing the following files: Filename: README.patch.3018 Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 37955 11 README.patch.3018 Algorithm #2 (sum): 15455 11 README.patch.3018 MD5 checksum: 1169EB51D75E0794C64C2C1FD6211B69 Filename: patchSG0003018 Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 01679 2 patchSG0003018 Algorithm #2 (sum): 12876 2 patchSG0003018 MD5 checksum: BD16A53A0AE693D6E9E276EE066BDBC8 Filename: patchSG0003018.idb Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 01339 2 patchSG0003018.idb Algorithm #2 (sum): 251 2 patchSG0003018.idb MD5 checksum: 1CB16E6A8C50BF17CD02A29C2E4D35EB Filename: patchSG0003018.performer_tools_man Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 10201 8 patchSG0003018.performer_tools_man Algorithm #2 (sum): 3144 8 patchSG0003018.performer_tools_man MD5 checksum: B6B3D90FAB9B5A342397C3E5AF5A8D29 Filename: patchSG0003018.performer_tools_sw Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 48474 18 patchSG0003018.performer_tools_sw Algorithm #2 (sum): 28176 18 patchSG0003018.performer_tools_sw MD5 checksum: DF4E8ED8326A6A0B39F7B4D67E5FD71F - ------------------------- - ---- Acknowledgments --- - ------------------------- Silicon Graphics wishes to thank the Internet community for their assistance in this matter. - ------------------------------------------------------------ - ---- Silicon Graphics Inc. Security Information/Contacts --- - ------------------------------------------------------------ If there are questions about this document, email can be sent to cse-security-alert@sgi.com. ------oOo------ Silicon Graphics provides security information and patches for use by the entire SGI community. This information is freely available to any person needing the information and is available via anonymous FTP and the Web. The primary SGI anonymous FTP site for security information and patches is sgigate.sgi.com (204.94.209.1). Security information and patches are located under the directories ~ftp/security and ~ftp/patches, respectively. The Silicon Graphics Security Headquarters Web page is accessible at the URL http://www.sgi.com/Support/security/security.html. For issues with the patches on the FTP sites, email can be sent to cse-security-alert@sgi.com. For assistance obtaining or working with security patches, please contact your SGI support provider. ------oOo------ Silicon Graphics provides a free security mailing list service called wiretap and encourages interested parties to self-subscribe to receive (via email) all SGI Security Advisories when they are released. Subscribing to the mailing list can be done via the Web (http://www.sgi.com/Support/security/wiretap.html) or by sending email to SGI as outlined below. % mail wiretap-request@sgi.com subscribe wiretap end ^d In the example above, is the email address that you wish the mailing list information sent to. The word end must be on a separate line to indicate the end of the body of the message. The control-d (^d) is used to indicate to the mail program that you are finished composing the mail message. ------oOo------ Silicon Graphics provides a comprehensive customer World Wide Web site. This site is located at http://www.sgi.com/Support/security/security.html. ------oOo------ For reporting *NEW* SGI security issues, email can be sent to security-alert@sgi.com or contact your SGI support provider. A support contract is not required for submitting a security report. ______________________________________________________________________________ This information is provided freely to all interested parties and may be redistributed provided that it is not altered in any way, Silicon Graphics is appropriately credited and the document retains and includes its valid PGP signature. - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNSPcA7Q4cFApAP75AQEfewQAsHZKmJwAuDVcR0r78AyJBLyzBCTb80HH qlimBWabwKIoWJqvYhM3pwORKTf5XN9pYEdJrDo+TE7WWrcs2ChpDIiqI0dEhQjx OkjKoQJIvDqz2daRnUq07Ua2bn4Je21ruxRBro8SzDv4FmvwlJMlPKNtj3QHxzfy QnToVIvozo0= =L5Ic - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- [ End Silicon Graphics Inc. 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