CVE-2005-0464: Sgi Irix

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

gr_osview in SGI IRIX 6.5.22, and possibly other 6.5 versions, does not drop privileges when opening description files while in debug mode, which allows local users to read a line from arbitrary files via the -d and -D options, which prints the line as a formatting error.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.5.22 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.