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IBM AIX Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA26420
Release Date: 2007-08-13
Last Update: 2007-08-16
Popularity: 8,164 views

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

OS:AIX 5.x

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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.

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