CVE-2005-0240

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Format string vulnerability in chdev on IBM AIX 5.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a command line argument, which is not properly handled when printing an error message.

Format string vulnerability in chdev on IBM AIX 5.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a command line argument, which is not properly handled when printing an error message.

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

First reported 20 years ago

2005-05-02 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:32:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 5.2

5.2

References

20050207 IBM AIX chdev Local Format String Vulnerability

IY67455

Vendor Advisory

IY67654

Vendor Advisory

aix-chdev-format-string(19244)

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