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GHSA-M77G-9R5H-645W

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-03 03:18 – Updated: 2022-05-03 03:18

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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.

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-05 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:47

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

8 references

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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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GHSA-M77G-9R5H-645W

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

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