CVE-2006-1247

CVE-2006-1247 describes a local race condition in IBM AIX's rm_mlcache_file (part of bos.rte.install) on AIX 5.1.0–5.3.0 that lets a local user overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. NSFOCUS SA2006-03 documents the vulnerability, affected AIX versions, and vendor APARs...