CVE-2007-5805 (GCVE-0-2007-5805)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-05 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:47
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/27437 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26258 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/cf… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabili… third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscri… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2007-10-25 00:00
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