A vulnerability has been identified in IBM AIX, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an error in the "/usr/sbin/chnfsmnt" utility that does not properly call binaries using full paths, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into running "chnfsmnt" in a directory containing a specially crafted binary.
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2008-03-25 : Initial release
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