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Severity
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2 contains an unspecified vulnerability that would allow a locally authenticated user to obtain root level privileges. IBM X-Force ID: 134067.

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Severity
7.5
Input Validation
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

A flaw in the AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2 JRE/SDK installp and updatep packages prevented the java.security, java.policy and javaws.policy files from being updated correctly. IBM X-Force ID: 130809.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

IBM AIX 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2 could allow a local user to gain root privileges using a specially crafted command within the bellmail client. IBM APARs: IV91006, IV91007, IV91008, IV91010, IV91011.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2 contains an unspecified vulnerability that would allow a locally authenticated user to obtain root level privileges. IBM APARs: IV88658, IV87981, IV88419, IV87640, IV88053.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

IBM AIX 6.1, 7.1, and 7.2 could allow a local user to exploit a vulnerability in the bellmail binary to gain root privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.5
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CSPOC in IBM PowerHA SystemMirror on AIX 6.1 and 7.1 allows remote authenticated users to perform an "su root" action by leveraging presence on the cluster-wide password-change list.

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Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

lquerylv in cmdlvm in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 and VIOS 2.2.x allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted DBGCMDLQUERYLV environment-variable value.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The runtime linker in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1 and VIOS 2.2.x allows local users to create a mode-666 root-owned file, and consequently gain privileges, by setting crafted MALLOCOPTIONS and MALLOCBUCKETS environment-variable values and then executing a setuid program.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the InfiniBand subsystem in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.2.2-FP-26 SP-02, allow local users to gain privileges via vectors involving (1) arp.ib or (2) ibstat.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.5
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

The TFTP client in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.2.2-FP-26 SP-02, when RBAC is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended file-ownership restrictions, and read or overwrite arbitrary files, via unspecified vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.1
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The IPv6 implementation in the inet subsystem in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.2.2-FP-26 SP-02, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted packet to an IPv6 interface.

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Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The default configuration of sendmail in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.1.4-FP-25 SP-02, allows local users to gain privileges by entering a command in a .forward file in a home directory.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The getpwnam function in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 and VIOS 2.1.0.10 through 2.2.1.3 does not properly interact with customer-extended LDAP user filtering, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1, and VIOS 2.1.x and 2.2.x, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an ICMP Echo Reply packet that contains 1 in the Identifier field, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0194.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.1
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The TCP implementation in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1, when the Large Send Offload option is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and panic) via an unspecified series of packets.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in qoslist in bos.net.tcp.server in IBM AIX 6.1 and VIOS 2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in qosmod in bos.net.tcp.server in IBM AIX 6.1 and VIOS 2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Multiple buffer overflows in qoslist in IBM AIX 6.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly gain privileges via a long string argument. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Multiple buffer overflows in qosmod in IBM AIX 6.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly gain privileges via long string arguments. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

gssd in IBM AIX 5.3.x through 5.3.9 and 6.1.0 through 6.1.2 does not properly handle the NFSv4 Kerberos credential cache, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions for Kerberized NFSv4 shares via unspecified vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) LIBINITDBG and (2) LIBINITDBGFILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Stack-based buffer overflow in muxatmd in IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a long filename.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in pppdial in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a long "input string."

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in IBM AIX 5.2.0 through 6.1.2 allow local users to append data to arbitrary files, related to (1) rmsock and (2) rmsock64 not creating "secure log files."

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in the kernel in IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode via unknown attack vectors.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Unspecified vulnerability in iostat in IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1 allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors related to an "environment variable handling error."

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Untrusted search path vulnerability in chnfsmnt in IBM AIX 6.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a modified PATH environment variable.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The nddstat programs on IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1 do not properly handle environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by invoking (1) atmstat, (2) entstat, (3) fddistat, (4) hdlcstat, or (5) tokstat.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Trusted Execution in IBM AIX 6.1 uses an incorrect pathname argument in a call to the trustchkblockwrite function, which might allow local users to modify trusted files, related to missing checks in the TSDFILESLOCK policy for modifications performed via hard links, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-6680.

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