CVE-2009-2669
7.2 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
6.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
9.9%
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.
Affected configurations
References
aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.asc
labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=815
secunia.com/advisories/36156
www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54090
www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54091
www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54593
www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56203
www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56204
www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56205
www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56206
www.securityfocus.com/bid/35934
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2151
Related
7.2 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
6.3 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
9.9%