CVE-2007-4799

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

The perfstat kernel extension in bos.perf.perfstat in AIX 5.3 does not verify privileges when processing a SET call, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang or crash) via unspecified SET operations.

The perfstat kernel extension in bos.perf.perfstat in AIX 5.3 does not verify privileges when processing a SET call, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang or crash) via unspecified SET operations.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2007-09-10 21:17:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2011-03-08 02:59:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 5.3

5.3

References

40392

26715

Patch, Vendor Advisory

25554

Patch

ADV-2007-3059

IY97309

Patch

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=3850

Patch

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