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AIX Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory:

SA18088

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Release Date:

2005-12-16

Last Update:

2006-05-04

Popularity:

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Partial Fix

OS:

AIX 5.x

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Solution:
Apply APARs or Interim Fix when available.
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/pseries/aixfixes.html

APAR for AIX 5.1:
IY78224 (available approx. 2006-01-30)
IY78221 (available approx. 2006-01-30)

APAR for AIX 5.2:
IY78225 (available approx. 2006-01-30)
IY78222 (available approx. 2006-01-30)

APAR for AIX 5.3:
IY78226 (available approx. 2006-01-30)
IY78223 (available approx. 2006-01-30)
IY79092 (available approx. 2006-01-30)
IY78227 (available approx. 2006-01-30)

Interim Fixes:
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/slocal_ifix.tar.Z
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libisode_ifix.tar.Z
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes...y/getshell_ifix.tar.Z (for AIX 5.3.0)
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes.../dbgmalloc_ifix.tar.Z (for AIX 5.3.0)

Provided and/or discovered by:
David Litchfield, NGSSoftware.

Changelog:
2005-12-19: Updated "Description" section.
2005-12-20: Updated "Description", "Solution" and "Original Advisory" sections.
2006-01-13: Added CVE references.
2006-05-04: Added link to NGSSoftware advisory.

Original Advisory:
IBM:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1SSRVAIX51SECUR081516_24
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1SSRVAIX52SECUR081515_383
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1SSRVAIX53SECUR081514_715
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1SSRVAIX51SECUR081515_539
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1SSRVAIX52SECUR081514_961
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1SSRVAIX53SECUR081511_499
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1SSRVAIX53SECUR081512_998
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1SSRVAIX53SECUR081514_550

NGSSoftware:
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/aixflaws.txt

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