CVE-2007-4236

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in lpd in bos.rte.printers in AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users with printq group privileges to gain root privileges.

Buffer overflow in lpd in bos.rte.printers in AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users with printq group privileges to gain root privileges.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

IBM AIX

First reported 17 years ago

2007-08-08 22:17:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2011-03-08 02:58:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 5.2

5.2

IBM AIX 5.3

5.3

References

26219

1018467

Patch

ADV-2007-2678

IY98339

IY98560

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