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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

IBM AIX 7.2 and 7.3 nimesis NIM master service could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands due to improper process controls.

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Source: MITRE
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10
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM VIOS 3.1, and 4.1 NIM server (formerly known as NIM master) service (nimesis) could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands due to improper process controls.  This addresses additional attack vectors for a vulnerability that was previously addressed in CVE-2024-56346.

Remedy

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability by following the instructions in the fixes and remediation section of the IBM security bulletin: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7251173
First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Unknown vulnerability in login for AIX 5.1L, when using loadable authentication modules, allows remote attackers to gain access to the system.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

diagrpt in AIX 4.3.x and 5.1 uses the DIAGDATADIR environment variable to find and execute certain programs, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability in lsmcode in unknown versions of AIX, possibly related to a usage error.

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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in login in various System V based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a large number of arguments through services such as telnet and rlogin.

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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflows in (1) sendstatus, (2) killprint, and (3) chkfhost in lpd in AIX 4.3 and 5.1 allow remote attackers to gain root privileges.

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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in BSD-based telnetd telnet daemon on various operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a set of options including AYT (Are You There), which is not properly handled by the telrcv function.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Some functions that implement the locale subsystem on Unix do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via functions such as gettext and catopen.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

snap command in AIX before 4.3.2 creates the /tmp/ibmsupt directory with world-readable permissions and does not remove or clear the directory when snap -a is executed, which could allow local users to access the shadowed password file by creating /tmp/ibmsupt/general/passwd before root runs snap -a.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

FTP installation script anon.ftp in AIX insecurely configures anonymous FTP, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Denial of service in BIND named via malformed SIG records.

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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in AIX ftpd in the libc library.

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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in Source Code Browser Program Database Name Server Daemon (pdnsd) for the IBM AIX C Set ++ compiler.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Unknown vulnerability in ftpd in IBM AIX 5.2, when configured to use Kerberos 5 for authentication, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unknown attack vectors.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

rpc.ypupdated (NIS) allows remote users to execute arbitrary commands.

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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The prescan function in Sendmail 8.12.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via buffer overflow attacks, as demonstrated using the parseaddr function in parseaddr.c.

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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in University of Washington's implementation of IMAP and POP servers.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in statd allows root privileges.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Talkd, when given corrupt DNS information, can be used to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow of rlogin program using TERM environmental variable.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in AIX and Solaris "gethostbyname" library call allows root access through corrupt DNS host names.

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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Execute commands as root via buffer overflow in Tooltalk database server (rpc.ttdbserverd).

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Some implementations of rlogin allow root access if given a -froot parameter.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

IRIX and AIX automountd services (autofsd) allow remote users to execute root commands.

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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in syslog utility allows local or remote attackers to gain root privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The AIX FTP client can be forced to execute commands from a malicious server through shell metacharacters (e.g. a pipe character).

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Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Inverse query buffer overflow in BIND 4.9 and BIND 8 Releases.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Format string vulnerability in tsm for the bos.rte.security fileset on AIX 5.2 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via login, and local users to gain privileges via login, su, or passwd, with a username that contains format string specifiers.

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Severity
10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Unknown vulnerability in AIX 5.3.0, when configured as an NIS client, allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

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