Description
gr_osview in SGI IRIX 6.5.22, and possibly other 6.5 versions, does not drop privileges when opening description files while in debug mode, which allows local users to read a line from arbitrary files via the -d and -D options, which prints the line as a formatting error.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- partial
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- SGI
- Published
- 5/2/2005
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
sgi : irix
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