CVE-2007-5804
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-11-05 17:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:47
Severity ?
Summary
cfgcon in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 does not properly validate the argument to the "-p" option to swcons, which allows local users in the system group to create or overwrite an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, by using the file's name as the argument.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/cfgcon_ifix.tarPatch
cve@mitre.orghttp://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=611
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/27437
cve@mitre.orghttp://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ03055
cve@mitre.orghttp://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ03061
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26258Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX53&path=%2F200710%2FSECURITY%2F20071030%2Fdatafile100405Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38154
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/cfgcon_ifix.tarPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=611
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/27437
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ03055
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ03061
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26258Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX53&path=%2F200710%2FSECURITY%2F20071030%2Fdatafile100405Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38154
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