Two vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM AIX, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by buffer overflow errors in the "piox25.c" and "piox25remote.sh" files when processing user-supplied data, which could be exploited by local attackers to crash an affected application or potentially obtain elevated privileges.
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2008-01-30 : Initial release
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