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Secunia Advisory SA19656

IBM AIX rm_mlcache_file Arbitrary File Overwrite
Secunia Advisory SA19656
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Release Date 2006-04-18
Last Update 2006-04-24
   
Popularity 10,388 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Manipulation of data
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
AIX 5.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-1247 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Yang Jilong has reported a vulnerability in AIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition in the "rm_mlcache_file" command when processing temporary files. This makes it possible to overwrite the contents of arbitrary files.


Solution
Apply Interim fix until APARs are available.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Yang Jilong, NSFocus Security Team.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
NSFOCUS:
http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0603.htm

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