A serious vulnerability has been found in IRIX telnetd which can give remote root access to any IRIX 6.2-6.5.8[m,f] system. The vulnerability occurrs when one of the environment variables contains a format string which is passed on to the syslog() function. Proof of concept exploit included (updated version - compiler and little endian fixes). Fix available here.
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