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IBM AIX Multiple Privilege Escalation and Security Bypass Vulnerabilities |
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM AIX, which could be exploited by malicious users to bypass security restrictions, disclose sensitive information or obtain elevated privileges.
The first issue is caused by buffer overflow errors in the swap, swapoff, swapon, lchangevg, ldeletepv, putlvodm, lvaryoffvg, lvgenminor, tellclvmd, utape, and uspchrp commands, which could be exploited by a local attacker (member of the "system" group) to execute arbitrary code with root privileges [...]
References
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/0261
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4064
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4066
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4068
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4070
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4072
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4075
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4078
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=648
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by the vendor, Andrea (bunker) Purificato, and iDefense Labs.
ChangeLog
2008-01-24 : Initial release
2008-01-25 : Updated References
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