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Title : IBM AIX "swcons" Insecure Permission Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2490
CVE ID : CVE-2008-4018
CWE ID : CWE-264
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-09-04

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A vulnerability has been identified in IBM AIX, which could be exploited by local attackers to gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by insecure permissions being set on the "/usr/sbin/swcons" utility, which could allow a malicious user (member of the "system" group) to execute arbitrary code by creating files owned by root that have insecure permissions.

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ChangeLog

2008-09-04 : Initial release

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