IRIX 6.5.24 vulnerability

According to SGI, "Adam Gowdiak from the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center has reported that under certain conditions /usr/sbin/cpr binary can be forced to load a user provided library while restarting the checkpointed process which can be used to obtain root user privileges."

For more go to ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040503-01-P.asc

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