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Secunia Advisory SA30360

IBM AIX ftpd "quote cwd" Full Path Disclosure Weakness
Secunia Advisory SA30360
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Release Date 2008-05-22
   
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Exposure of system information
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
AIX 5.x
AIX 6.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-1999-0201 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A weakness has been reported in IBM AIX, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose system information.

The problem is that it is possible to disclose the full path of the home directory of the anonymous ftp user via a "quote cwd" command on an ftpd server with anonymous login enabled.

The weakness is reported in versions 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1.


Solution
Apply fixes or APARs as soon as they become available.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits ISS X-Force.

Original Advisory
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/ftpd_advisory.asc

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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