Quick answers
- Is CVE-1999-0328 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-1999-0328 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-1999-0328?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.2, published 1 November 1997.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- SGI IRIX.
- Is there a fix for CVE-1999-0328?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-1999-0328 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in an operating system.
- Am I affected by CVE-1999-0328?
- Check whether you run Sgi Irix. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the SGI 'permissions' program. The flaw allows a local, unprivileged user to execute commands or manipulate system files with root-level authority. The root cause is likely an insecure handling of permissions or a buffer overflow within the utility, though specific code-level details are limited in historical records. An attacker must have local shell access to the system to exploit this vulnerability. SGI released security advisory 19971103-01-PX to address this issue.
Affected products
- SGI IRIX
Timeline
- 1997-11-01: disclosed
- 1997-11-03: advisory: SGI security advisory 19971103-01-PX released