CVE-2007-4622

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Integer underflow in the dns_name_fromtext function in (1) libdns_nonsecure.a and (2) libdns_secure.a in IBM AIX 5.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted "-y" (TSIG key) command line argument to dig.

Integer underflow in the dns_name_fromtext function in (1) libdns_nonsecure.a and (2) libdns_secure.a in IBM AIX 5.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted "-y" (TSIG key) command line argument to dig.

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 17 years ago

2007-11-05 16:46:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:33:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 5.2

5.2

References

ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/dig_ifix.tar

Patch

20071030 IBM AIX dig dns_name_fromtext Integer Underflow Vulnerability

27437

Vendor Advisory

1018871

IZ05017

26262

Patch

ADV-2007-3669

aix-dig-dnsnamefromtext-integer-underflow(38169)

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