Title: SGI IRIX Snoop Unspecified Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
SGI IRIX snoop network protocol analyzer has been reported prone to an unspecified vulnerability, when operating in an IPV6 network environment.
Technical details regarding this vulnerability are not currently available. The vendor has announced that various Snoop functionality has been removed, allowing the utility to not require root privileges to run. As a result, although unconfirmed, it has been conjectured that this vulnerability may be exploited to locally gain root privileges or to gain remote root access to a system.
It is not currently clear whether this vulnerability is a local or remote issue.
Affected Products:
- SGI IRIX 6.5.19
- SGI IRIX 6.5.20
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