Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM AIX, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service or obtain elevated privileges.
The first issue is due to an unspecified error in the "utape" command, which could be exploited by malicious users from the "system" group and with a "Diagnostics" role to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
The second flaw is due to an unspecified error in the "cfgmgr" command, which could be exploited by malicious users in the "system" group to overwrite arbitrary files or execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
The third vulnerability is due to an unspecified error in "snappd", which could be exploited by malicious users in the "snapp" group to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
The fourth flaw is due to unspecified errors in "named8" and "mkvg", which could be exploited by malicious users in the "system" group to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
The fifth vulnerability is due to errors in "/etc/slip.login", "/usr/bin/rdist", "uucp", and "xlock", which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.
The sixth issue is due to an error in "invscoutClient_VPD_Survey" (Inventory Scout) when monitoring the Vital Product Database, which could be exploited by local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files or cause a denial of service.
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2006-09-26 : Initial release
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