Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM AIX, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges or cause a denial of service.
The first issue is caused by buffer overflow errors in the fcstat, ibstat, mkpath, swcons, uucp and xlplm programs, and in the directory enabled System V print commands provided with the bos.svprint file set, which could be exploited by local attackers to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
The second vulnerability is caused by an unspecified error in the inventory scout code, which may be exploited by a malicious user to delete system files.
The third issue is caused by an error in the "bos.perf.perfstat" fileset kernel extension, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service.
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2007-09-06 : Initial release
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