CVE-2002-0174: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

nsd on SGI IRIX before 6.5.11 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the nsd.dump file.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.5 only; version 6.5.1 only; version 6.5.2 only; version 6.5.3 only; version 6.5.4 only; version 6.5.5 only; …

Published 2002-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.