<date>
04/2004

<title>
libdesktopicon.so $HOME

<os>
IRIX 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.5.21

<info>
There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in the libdesktopicon.so library in the way the HOME environment variable is handled. It is possible to exploit this bug in suid root binaries which are linked with vulnerable library and locally gain root user privileges.

<link>
IRIX/irx_libdesktopicon.c

<file>
IRIX/irx_libdesktopicon.c
