CVE-2004-2388

The vulnerability CVE-2004-2388 affects the AIX 4.3.3 rexecd component. It stems from not properly using a local copy of the pwd structure when calling getpwnam, allowing the authenticate function to overwrite the pwd data and potentially assign privileges to the wrong user. This creates a privil...

CVE-2004-2388

rexecd for AIX 4.3.3 does not properly use a local copy of the pwd structure when calling getpwnam, which may cause the structure to be overwritten by the authenticate function and assign privileges to the wrong user...