CVE-2009-2669
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 5, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 5, 2009
Description
A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- IZ54593vendor-advisory
- IZ56204vendor-advisory
- 36156third-party-advisory
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.asc
- IZ56203vendor-advisory
- IZ54090vendor-advisory
- IZ54091vendor-advisory
- 35934vdb-entry
- IZ56205vendor-advisory
- ADV-2009-2151vdb-entry
- 20090804 IBM AIX libC _LIB_INIT_DBG Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerabilitythird-party-advisory
- IZ56206vendor-advisory
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