First published: Tue May 26 2009(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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IBM AIX | =5.3 | |
IBM AIX | =6.1 |
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