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IBM AIX Various R Commands Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA23995
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Release Date:
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2007-02-02
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Last Update:
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2007-03-12
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Popularity:
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8,049 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | AIX 5.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2007-0670
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM AIX, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerabilities are caused due unspecified errors within various r commands (e.g. rsh, rcp, rlogin and rdist) and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow, which may allow execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
The vulnerabilities reportedly affect versions 5.2 and 5.3.
Solution:
Apply APARs:
APAR for AIX 5.2.0:
IY94368
APAR for AIX 5.3.0:
IY94301
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2007-02-05: Added CVE reference.
2007-02-08: Updated "Solution", "Solution Status", and "Description" sections to include new information from IBM.
2007-03-12: Updated "Solution" and "Solution Status" sections to reflect fix information.
Original Advisory:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY94301
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY94368
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