CVE-2009-2669
05.08.2009, 19:30
A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1.Enginsight
Vendor | Product | Version |
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ibm | aix | 5.3 |
ibm | aix | 6.1 |
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= Vulnerable software versions
Common Weakness Enumeration
References