The vulnerability of the LVM system for managing logical volumes in the AIX operating system allows a hacker to gain root privileges.

The vulnerability of the LVM Logical Volume Manager system in the AIX operating system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker, operating locally, to gain root privileges using the lquerylv command...

AIX 5.3 TL 12 : lvm (IV68070)

The running of lquerylv command with variable DBGCMDLQUERYLV set may allow a local user to gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text in the description was extracted from AIX Security Advisory lvmadvisory.asc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

AIX cmdlvm vulnerability,VIOS cmdlvm vulnerability

IBM SECURITY ADVISORY First Issued: Tue Jan 13 12:44:56 AM CST 2015 Updated: Tue Jan 20 08:37:23 CST 2015 Update: Added Acknowledgment Updated: Fri Jan 30 09:02:40 CST 2015 Update: Updated iFixes |Updated: Tue Feb 17 14:15:48 CST 2015 |Update: Updated 6.1.8 and 7.1.2 SPs The most recent version o...