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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5805
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2007-5805

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 an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, via a symlink attack involving use of the file's name as the argument. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5804.

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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