CVE-2007-4353

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

Multiple buffer overflows in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allow local users in the system group to gain root privileges via unspecified vectors involving the (1) chpath, (2) rmpath, and (3) devinstall programs in bos.rte.methods.

Multiple buffer overflows in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allow local users in the system group to gain root privileges via unspecified vectors involving the (1) chpath, (2) rmpath, and (3) devinstall programs in bos.rte.methods.

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

2007-08-15 00:17:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:32:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 5.2

5.2

IBM AIX 5.3

5.3

References

ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README

Patch

26420

Patch, Vendor Advisory

25270

1018549

ADV-2007-2860

IZ00531

IZ01433

aix-chpath-rmpath-devinstall-bo(35971)

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