CVE-2001-0533

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in libi18n library in IBM AIX 5.1 and 4.3.x allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LANG environmental variable.

Buffer overflow in libi18n library in IBM AIX 5.1 and 4.3.x allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LANG environmental variable.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

IBM AIX

First reported 23 years ago

2001-08-14 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 4.3

4.3

IBM AIX 5.1

5.1

References

L-123

5585

MSS-OAR-E01-2001:271.1

Patch, Vendor Advisory

aix-libi18n-lang-bo(6863)

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