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IBM AIX Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA26420
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Release Date:
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2007-08-13
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Last Update:
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2007-08-16
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Popularity:
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6,562 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-2007-4353
CVE-2007-4354
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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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