SECOBJADV-2008-05: Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

====================================================================== = Security Objectives Advisory SECOBJADV-2008-05 = ====================================================================== Veritas Storage Foundation Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability...

CVE-2008-4638

CVE-2008-4638 affects Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation (VxFS) 5.0 and earlier, via the Quick I/O for Databases feature. The vulnerable component is the setuid root utility qioadmin , which can be fed an arbitrary filename and will write that file’s contents to the standard error stream, enabli...

CVE-2008-4638

qioadmin in the Quick I/O for Database feature in Symantec Veritas File System VxFS on HP-UX, and before 5.0 MP3 on Solaris, Linux, and AIX, allows local users to read arbitrary files by causing qioadmin to write a file's content to standard error in an error message...