From agent99@csd.sgi.com Sun Jul 23 00:36:01 2000 From: SGI Security Coordinator Resent-From: mea culpa To: agent99@sgi.com Resent-To: jericho@attrition.org Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Two Input Validation Vulnerabilities in ftpd [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SGI Security Advisory Title: Two Input Validation Vulnerabilities in ftpd Title: CERT CA-2000-13 Number: 20000701-01-I Date: July 14, 2000 ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. SGI 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 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 from your use of, failure to use or improper use of any of the instructions or information in this Security Advisory. ______________________________________________________________________________ As a followup to the CERTŪ Advisory CA-2000-13 "Two Input Validation Problems In FTPD", SGI has investigated and provides the following information. - ----------------------- - --- Issue Specifics --- - ----------------------- Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the ftpd server that can allow root access according to CERT Advisory CA-2000-13: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-13.html SGI has investigated the issue and finds all versions of IRIX are not vulnerable to this issue and no further action is required. - ------------------------ - --- Acknowledgments --- - ------------------------ SGI wishes to thank the CERT Coordination Center for their assistance in this matter. - ----------------------------------------- - --- SGI Security Information/Contacts --- - ----------------------------------------- If there are questions about this document, email can be sent to cse-security-alert@sgi.com. ------oOo------ SGI 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 SGI Security Headquarters Web page is accessible at the URL http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ . 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------ SGI 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------ SGI provides a comprehensive customer World Wide Web site. This site is located at http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ . ------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, SGI is appropriately credited and the document retains and includes its valid PGP signature. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBOW9l+LQ4cFApAP75AQGbRwQAqxa5Oihg5zw4k+VBI9Ae/aaxpIBQSQMp Qg/nb0b5bsBBSb04EUmAZP9LrxD24LQx+RL5lGIg4WepW+Fogg9ttHw2kl9FTQGt W5hdM3P8QY0HalSLuacLRI3LI2bvpY4Q4WjnRCCt3AIfpWWUjIpY+cjIWAcI40QU AQ5jbtG3JcY= =/m0n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----