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Aix 6.1 and prior [High]

By Security Team • Sep 10th, 2008 • Category: Security Notifications

Affects:

  • Aix 6.1 and prior [High]

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.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2008-4018
Severity: High

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Related OLEX Packages: aix
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