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IBM AIX Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA27437
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Release Date:
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2007-10-31
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Last Update:
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2008-09-11
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Popularity:
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7,782 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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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM AIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
1) A boundary error within the sendrmt function of the bellmail program can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
2) A boundary error within the domacro function of the ftp program can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
3) A boundary error within the lquerypv utility when handling arguments to the "-V" option can be exploited can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
4) A boundary error within the lqueryvg utility when handling arguments to the "-p" option can be exploited can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
5) An integer underflow error within the dns_name_fromtext function of the dig program can be exploited to cause a heap corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
6) A boundary error in the crontab program when handling command-line arguments can be exploited to cause a data segment-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Vulnerabilities #5 and #6 reportedly only affects version 5.2.
7) An input validation error within the swcons command when handling arguments passed to the "-p" option can be exploited by a user in the "system" group to e.g. create or modify arbitrary system files.
8) A boundary error in the tftp program can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
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