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AIX lsmcode / update_flash Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA20325
Release Date: 2006-05-29
Last Update: 2007-04-02
Popularity: 8,283 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:AIX 5.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in AIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within the "lsmcode" and the "update_flash" programs when handling commands that do not use absolute paths. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

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