CVE-2009-2669

Description

A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2151

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35934

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56206

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56205

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56204

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56203

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54593

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54091

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54090

http://secunia.com/advisories/36156

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=815

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.asc

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3