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SGI Security Advisory
Title: IRIX BIND Vulnerabilities
Number: 20010401-01-P
Date: April 18, 2001
Reference: CERT® Advisory CA-2001-02 Multiple Vulnerabilities in BIND
Reference: CERT® Incident Note IN-2001-03
Reference: CVE CAN-2001-0011, CAN-2001-0012, CAN-2001-0013
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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.
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or information in this Security Advisory.
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- --- Issue Specifics ---
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The BIND distribution provides Internet domain name service known as DNS.
CERT has reported several vulnerabilities that have been discovered in
the BIND named daemon.
SGI has investigated the issue and provides the following information for
customer interpretation and possible action.
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- --- Impact ---
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SGI distributes BIND 4.9.7 on IRIX as eoe.sw.named which is not loaded
by default on IRIX systems.
SGI distributes BIND 8.2.2 on Freeware CDs and on the Freeware website:
http://freeware.sgi.com/index-by-alpha.html
A local user account on a vulnerable DNS server is not required in order
to exploit named daemon.
The named daemon can be exploited remotely over an untrusted network.
The named daemon vulnerabilities can lead to a root compromise.
The named vulnerabilities were discovered by NAI COVERT Labs:
http://www.pgp.com/research/covert/advisories/047.asp
The named vulnerabilities were reported by CERT® Coordination Center:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-02.html
http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2001-03.html
The CVE candidates for these vulnerabilities are:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2001-0011
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2001-0012
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2001-0013
The BIND vulnerabilities have been publicly discussed in USENET newsgroups
and security mailing lists:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2307
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- --- Temporary Solution ---
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Unfortunately, there are no immediate or temporary workarounds for
this issue. This issue can only be addressed with the installation
of a patch, installation of the overlay 12 for IRIX 6.5 (IRIX 6.5.12), or
installation of BIND 4.9.8 or BIND 8.2.3 from http://www.isc.org/
The steps below can be used to disable the named daemon to prevent
exploitation of this vulnerability until patches can be installed.
1) Become the root user on the system.
% /bin/su -
Password:
#
2) Check to see if the system is running the named daemon.
# chkconfig
Flag State
==== =====
named off
If named is disabled, then the system is not vulnerable
to these BIND vulnerabilities.
3) Disable named daemon.
# chkconfig named off
4) Kill any running named daemons.
# /sbin/killall named
5) Return to previous level.
# exit
%
6) Install patches when possible.
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- --- Solution ---
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Install IRIX 6.5.12 when available or patch 4193 for IRIX 6.5-6.5.11
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 4193 Note 2
IRIX 6.5.1 yes 4193 Note 2
IRIX 6.5.2 yes 4193 Note 2
IRIX 6.5.3 yes 4193 Note 2
IRIX 6.5.4 yes 4193 Note 2
IRIX 6.5.5 yes 4193 Note 2
IRIX 6.5.6 yes 4193 Note 2
IRIX 6.5.7 yes 4193 Note 2
IRIX 6.5.8 yes 4193 Note 2
IRIX 6.5.9 yes 4193 Note 2
IRIX 6.5.10 yes 4193 Note 2
IRIX 6.5.11 yes 4193 Note 3 & 4
IRIX 6.5.12 no Note 5
NOTES
1) This version of the IRIX operating has been retired.
Upgrade to an actively supported IRIX operating system.
See http://support.sgi.com/news/support/index.html#support_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/news/support/index.html#support_policy
for more information.
3) If you have not received an Overlay 11 CD for IRIX 6.5, contact your
SGI Support Provider or URL: http://support.sgi.com/irix/swupdates/
4) Download the IRIX 6.5.11 Maintenance Release Stream from the URL:
http://support.sgi.com/colls/patches/tools/relstream/index.html
5) IRIX 6.5.12 Maintenance Release Stream is scheduled to be
released in May 2001
Patches are available via the web, anonymous FTP and from your SGI
service/support provider.
SGI patches for IRIX can be found at the following patch servers:
http://support.sgi.com/irix/ and ftp://patches.sgi.com/
SGI Security Patches can be found at:
http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/
SGI Security Advisories can be found at:
http://www.sgi.com/support/security/ and
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/
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
IRIX 6.5 Software Update CDs can be obtained from:
http://support.sgi.com/irix/swupdates/
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.4193
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 01206 8 README.patch.4193
Algorithm #2 (sum): 48388 8 README.patch.4193
MD5 checksum:
Filename: patchSG0004193
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 25396 3 patchSG0004193
Algorithm #2 (sum): 52827 3 patchSG0004193
MD5 checksum:
Filename: patchSG0004193.eoe_sw
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 56669 318 patchSG0004193.eoe_sw
Algorithm #2 (sum): 44729 318 patchSG0004193.eoe_sw
MD5 checksum:
Filename: patchSG0004193.idb
Algorithm #1 (sum -r): 29074 2 patchSG0004193.idb
Algorithm #2 (sum): 43255 2 patchSG0004193.idb
MD5 checksum:
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- --- Acknowledgments ----
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SGI wishes to thank the CERT Coordination Center, NAI COVERT Labs and the
users of the Internet Community at large for their assistance in this matter.
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