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Title : IBM AIX Utilities Arguments Handling Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3669
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4217 - CVE-2007-4513 - CVE-2007-4621 - CVE-2007-4622 - CVE-2007-4623 - CVE-2007-5804 - CVE-2007-5805
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-10-31

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM AIX, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. These issues are caused by buffer overflow and insecure file permissions within the "bellmail", "crontab", "dig", "ftp", "lquerypv", "lqueryvg", "swcons", "tftp" and "xfs" utilities when processing user-supplied arguments, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary code with "root" privileges.

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by the vendor, Joshua J. Drake (VeriSign iDefense Labs), Sean Larsson (VeriSign iDefense Labs) and Alex DeLarge.

ChangeLog

2007-10-31 : Initial release

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