fkie_cve-2009-1786
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2009-05-26 15:30
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
The malloc subsystem in libc in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the log file associated with the MALLOCDEBUG environment variable.
References
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