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AIX LSCFG Insecure Temporary File Handling Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA17202
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Release Date:
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2005-10-14
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Last Update:
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2006-02-14
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Popularity:
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7,958 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 5.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in AIX, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified temporary file handling error in LSCFG when opening its trace file. This may be exploited by malicious users to corrupt certain system files e.g. "/etc/passwd".
The vulnerability has been reported in AIX 5.2 and 5.3.
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