CVE-2005-0464
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...
- Published
- Apr 8, 2005
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Apr 7, 2005
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:NLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 50.8%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1anonymous · irix · Apr 7, 2005
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