CVE-2007-5805
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 5, 2007
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 5, 2007
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- aix-swcons-insecure-permissions(38154)vdb-entry
- 27437third-party-advisory
- 26258vdb-entry
- IZ03055vendor-advisory
- IZ03061vendor-advisory
- 20071030 IBM AIX swcons Local Arbitrary File Access Vulnerabilitythird-party-advisory
- http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX53&path=%2F200710%2FSECURITY%2F20071030%2Fdatafile100405
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