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Secunia Advisory SA10276

IBM AIX rcp Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA10276

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Release Date

2003-11-21

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Operating System

AIX 4.x

AIX 5.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2003-0954 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in IBM AIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a unspecified boundary error in rcp.

Successful exploitation allows malicious users to execute arbitrary code with "root" privileges.

Solution
Apply the following APARs available at:
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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Secunia Advisory SA10276

IBM AIX rcp Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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