CVE-2009-2669

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54593
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56204
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36156
• http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.asc
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56203
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54090
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54091
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35934
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56205
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2151
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=815
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56206

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