CVE-2003-0173: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xfsdq in xfsdump does not create quota information files securely, which allows local users to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.5 only; version 6.5.1 only; version 6.5.2 only; version 6.5.2f only; version 6.5.2m only; version 6.5.3 only; …
• Xfsdump Xfsdump: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only

Published 2003-05-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.