CVE-2007-4798

Severity

65%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

153%

Unspecified vulnerability in invscout in Inventory Scout in invscout.rte in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users to delete system files that have names matching the final substring of a hostname alias, as demonstrated by hostnames ending in "unix".

Unspecified vulnerability in invscout in Inventory Scout in invscout.rte in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users to delete system files that have names matching the final substring of a hostname alias, as demonstrated by hostnames ending in "unix".

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

IBM AIX

First reported 17 years ago

2007-09-10 21:17:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:33:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 5.2

5.2

IBM AIX 5.3

5.3

References

40393

26715

Patch, Vendor Advisory

25556

Patch

ADV-2007-3059

IY98506

Patch

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=3846

Patch

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=3847

Patch

aix-inventoryscout-dos(36447)

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