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IBM AIX Trusted Execution Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA28257
Release Date: 2008-01-07
Last Update: 2008-04-01
Popularity: 4,442 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Unknown
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:AIX 6.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-6680
CVE-2008-1596


Description:
A vulnerability with an unknown impact has been reported in IBM AIX.

The problem is that a wrong path name is passed to the "trustchk_block_write()" function, which prevents trusted files from being modified. No further information is available.

The vulnerability is reported in AIX 6.1.

Solution:
Apply APAR IZ12119/IZ12891/IZ13418.

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

Changelog:
2008-01-14: Added APAR IZ12891 in "Solution" section. Added additional vendor link.
2008-01-17: Added CVE reference.
2008-01-18: Added APAR IZ13418 in "Solution" section. Added additional vendor link.
2008-04-01: Added additional CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
IBM (IZ12119/IZ12891/IZ13418):
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ12119
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ12891
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ13418


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