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AIX invscoutd Insecure Logfile Handling Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA11200
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Release Date:
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2004-03-26
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Popularity:
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8,155 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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Unpatched
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| OS: | AIX 4.x
AIX 5.x
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Description:
Watercloud has reported a vulnerability in AIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a system with escalated privileges.
A user invoking "invscoutd" may specify a logfile as a command line argument. This may reportedly be exploited to create or overwrite files with escalated privileges by supplying the path of an arbitrary file.
The vulnerability has been reported in earlier versions of invscoutd included in AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5.1.
NOTE: An exploit has been published, which uses a special attack vector to gain root privileges on an affected system.
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