CVE-2008-4018 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4018
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Description: swcons in bos.rte.console in IBM AIX 5.2.0 through 6.1.1 allows local users in the system group to create or overwrite an arbitrary file, and establish weak permissions and root ownership for this file, via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5805.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44903 ST 1020818 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31739 OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5932 CONFIRM http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/swcons_advisory.asc BID 30999 AIXAPAR http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ28943 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18341 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18339 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18338 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18335 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18334

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