Security Advisory SA22106 - IBM AIX mkvg Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA22106

IBM AIX mkvg Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA22106

Release Date

2006-09-26

Last Update

2007-11-12

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Operating System

AIX 5.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2006-4416 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

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.

Solution
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Original Advisory
IBM:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY88722
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY88699

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