CVE-2008-4018
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 10, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 10, 2008
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/swcons_advisory.asc
- 31739third-party-advisory
- IZ18335vendor-advisory
- ADV-2008-2490vdb-entry
- IZ18334vendor-advisory
- IZ18338vendor-advisory
- ibm-aix-swcons-code-execution(44903)vdb-entry
- IZ28943vendor-advisory
- IZ18339vendor-advisory
- 30999vdb-entry
- IZ18341vendor-advisory
- 1020818vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5932vdb-entrysignature
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