vendor:
AIX
by:
Marco Ivaldi
7.2
CVSS
HIGH
Arbitrary File Overwrite
264
CWE
Product Name: AIX
Affected Version From: AIX 5.3 and 6.1
Affected Version To: AIX 5.3 and 6.1
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: CVE-2009-2669
CPE: aix:aix
Metasploit:
N/A
Other Scripts:
N/A
Tags: N/A
CVSS Metrics: N/A
Nuclei References:
N/A
Nuclei Metadata: N/A
Platforms Tested: AIX
2009
raptor_libC
A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1 (CVE-2009-2669).
Mitigation:
Ensure that the _LIB_INIT_DBG and _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables are properly handled.