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AIX setlocale Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA21541
Release Date: 2006-08-18
Last Update: 2006-08-24
Popularity: 8,686 views

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

OS:AIX 5.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Solution:
Apply temporary fix until APARs are available.

Interim fix:
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/setlocale_ifix.tar.Z

APAR for AIX 5.1.0:
IY88528 (available approx. 2006-09-06)

APAR for AIX 5.2.0:
IY88512 (available approx. 2006-09-06)

APAR for AIX 5.3.0:
IY88183 (available approx. 2006-09-06)

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2006-08-24: Added CVE reference.

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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