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IBM AIX Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA26420  
Release Date: 2007-08-13
Last Update: 2007-08-16

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

OS:AIX 5.x


CVE reference:CVE-2007-4353 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-4354 (Secunia mirror)

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

1) Boundary errors within the chpath, rmpath, and devinstall commands can be exploited by a user in the system group to cause buffer overflows.

2) A boundary error within the fileplace command can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 5.2.0 and 5.3.0.

Solution:
Apply APARs:
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/unixservers/aixfixes.html

AIX 5.2.0:
APAR IZ00531
APAR IZ00154

AIX 5.3.0:
APAR IZ01433
APAR IZ00149

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

Changelog:
2007-08-16: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README



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