EUVD-2004-1326

Malware in sbrugna...

CVE-2002-1687

Buffer overflow in the diagnostics library in AIX allows local users to "cause data and instructions to be overwritten" via a long DIAGNOSTICS environment variable...

CVE-2004-1329

Untrusted execution path vulnerability in the diag commands 1 lsmcode, 2 diagexec, 3 invscout, and 4 invscoutd in AIX 5.1 through 5.3 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by modifying the DIAGNOSTICS environment variable to point to a malicious Dctrl program...

CVE-2004-1329

Untrusted execution path vulnerability in the diag commands 1 lsmcode, 2 diagexec, 3 invscout, and 4 invscoutd in AIX 5.1 through 5.3 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by modifying the DIAGNOSTICS environment variable to point to a malicious Dctrl program...

IBM AIX 5.x - 'Diag' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12041/info diag is reported prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of certain diag applications to properly implement security controls when executing an application specified by the 'DIAGNOSTICS' environment...