AIX 5.2 TL 10 : bos.rte.cron (U812104)

The remote host is missing AIX PTF U812104, which is related to the security of the package bos.rte.cron. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from AIX Security PTF U812104. The text itself is copyright C...

CVE-2007-4621

CVE-2007-4621 describes a local privilege escalation in IBM AIX 5.2 via a buffer overflow in the crontab main function when copying user-supplied command line arguments into a fixed-size BSS buffer. Successful exploitation allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges, requiri...

iDefense Security Advisory 10.30.07: IBM AIX 5.2 crontab BSS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

IBM AIX 5.2 crontab BSS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability iDefense Security Advisory 10.30.07 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Oct 30, 2007 I. BACKGROUND The crontab program is a user utility that enables users to create, remove, and edit cron jobs. The cron jobs will then later...