CVE-2009-2669 (GCVE-0-2009-2669)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-08-05 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:59
VLAI?
Summary
A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE 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.
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CWE
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Assigner
References
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54593 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56204 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
http://secunia.com/advisories/36156 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/l… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56203 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54090 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54091 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35934 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56205 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2151 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabili… third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56206 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
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