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AIX enq Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10470
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Release Date:
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2003-12-19
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Popularity:
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9,724 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | AIX 4.x
AIX 5.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
IBM has reported a vulnerability in AIX, which can be exploited by certain malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error in "enq" and can be exploited by users of the "printq" group to gain "root" privileges.
The vulnerability affects versions 4.3, 5.1, and 5.2.
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