Security Bulletin: AIX is vulnerable to a denial of service due to lpd (CVE-2022-22444)

Summary UPDATED Sep 13 Added iFix information for 7.1 TL5 SP10 and 7.2 TL4 SP6: A vulnerability in the AIX lpd printer daemon could allow a local user with elevated privileges to cause a denial of service CVE-2022-22444. The lpd daemon is the remote print server on AIX. Vulnerability Details...

CVE-2022-22444

The CVE-2022-22444 issue affects IBM AIX 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and VIOS 3.1. A local user could exploit a vulnerability in the lpd daemon to cause a denial of service. IBM’s advisories (lpd_advisory2.asc) list affected filesets and APARs (e.g., IJ39868, IJ39875, IJ39876, IJ39877, IJ39878) and provide fix...