CVE-2007-5804 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5804
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Description: cfgcon in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 does not properly validate the argument to the "-p" option to swcons, which allows local users in the system group to create or overwrite an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, by using the file's name as the argument.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38154 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA27437 IDEFENSE http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=611 CONFIRM http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX53&path=%2F200710%2FSECURITY%2F20071030%2Fdatafile100405 BID 26258 AIXAPAR http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ03055 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ03061

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