CVE-2007-4238

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

AIX 5.2 and 5.3 install pioinit with user and group ownership of bin, which allows local users with bin or possibly printq privileges to gain root privileges by modifying pioinit.

AIX 5.2 and 5.3 install pioinit with user and group ownership of bin, which allows local users with bin or possibly printq privileges to gain root privileges by modifying pioinit.

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 14 years ago

2011-03-08 02:58:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 5.2

5.2

IBM AIX 5.3

5.3

References

36782

26219

1018468

ADV-2007-2678

IY79785

IY79786

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