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AIX enq Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10470
Release Date: 2003-12-19
Popularity: 10,015 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:AIX 4.x
AIX 5.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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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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