CVE-2007-4798 (GCVE-0-2007-4798)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-10 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:08
VLAI
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in invscout in Inventory Scout in invscout.rte in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users to delete system files that have names matching the final substring of a hostname alias, as demonstrated by hostnames ending in "unix".
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/26715 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscri… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscri… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3059 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://osvdb.org/40393 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25556 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2007-08-20 00:00
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