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IBM AIX mkvg Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA22106
Release Date: 2006-09-26
Last Update: 2007-11-12
Popularity: 7,539 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:
A vulnerability has been reported in IBM AIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is due to an unspecified error in mkvg. This can be exploited by users in the "system" group to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

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