IRIX Patching Capabilities

Vendors typically stop producing patches for end-of-life operating systems, even for critical issues. If you are faced with this or a similar issue, we can provide key fixes and patches that are not available from SGI. These patches can be provided for key services such as Secure Shell, which usually cannot be disabled as a workaround for a critical flaw. We have the expertise to create a limited set of new base packages for IRIX, so long as a code-fix is freely available, to cover these issues and provide a real fix for your IRIX systems.

Here is a list of issues for which PARSEC can provide internally sourced non-SGI replacement patches for critical vulnerabilities. Note that this list covers (more than) all default IRIX network services:

• Secure Shell
• Network Time Protocol
• Telnet, rsh, rlogin, and rexec (though customers should really migrate these to SSH, since these are unencrypted services anyway)
• Talk, ntalk, and writesrv
• Sendmail
• SNMP
• inetd and its internal services

We specifically cannot provide patches for these situations:

• Kernel patches
• Most local-only privilege escalation issues
• SGI or 3rd party drivers
• IRIX-specific proprietary software where no open source analog or public source code exists