CVE-2007-5805: Medium severity IBM AIX vulnerability
Published Nov 5, 2007
·Updated
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 an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, via a symlink attack involving use of the file's name as the argument. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5804.
Affected Software
2 affected components
IBM AIX=5.3
IBM AIX=5.2
Remediation
Patch Available
Event History
Nov 5, 2007
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:00 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:00 PM
Description
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is there a workaround for CVE-2007-5805?
A potential workaround for CVE-2007-5805 is to ensure strict file permission settings for sensitive directories.