CVE-2008-4018
First published: Wed Sep 10 2008(Updated: )
swcons in bos.rte.console in IBM AIX 5.2.0 through 6.1.1 allows local users in the system group to create or overwrite an arbitrary file, and establish weak permissions and root ownership for this file, via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5805.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| IBM AIX | =5.3 | |
| IBM AIX | =5.2 | |
| IBM AIX | =6.1 |
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Reference Links
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18341
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/swcons_advisory.asc
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18338
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18335
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30999
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31739
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ28943
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18334
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020818
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18339
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2490
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44903
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5932
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- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/ibm
- canonical/ibm aix
- version/ibm aix/5.3
- version/ibm aix/5.2
- version/ibm aix/6.1