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AIX Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA18088
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Release Date:
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2005-12-16
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Last Update:
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2006-05-04
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Popularity:
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9,876 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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Partial Fix
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| OS: | AIX 5.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
David Litchfield has reported some vulnerabilities in AIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
1) An unspecified boundary error exists in the suid root "slocal" binary. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow, which potentially allows arbitrary code execution with root privileges.
2) An unspecified boundary error exists in the suid root "muxatmd" binary. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow, which potentially allows arbitrary code execution with root privileges.
3) An unspecified input validation error exists in the suid root "getShell" and "getCommand" utilities in the WebSM component. This can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files on the filesystem.
4) An unspecified boundary error exists in the debug malloc tools. This can be exploited to gain root privileges when the tools are used with a suid root executable.
The vulnerabilities have been reported in AIX 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3. Vulnerability #3 and #4 affects only AIX 5.3.
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