CVE-2009-2727

critical

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _tt_internal_realpath function in the ToolTalk library (libtt.a) in IBM AIX 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.3.7 through 5.3.10, and 6.1.0 through 6.1.3, when the rpc.ttdbserver daemon is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long XDR-encoded ASCII string to remote procedure 15.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1620

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ52851

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ52850

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ52849

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ52848

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ52847

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ52846

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ52845

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ52844

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ52843

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ52842

http://secunia.com/advisories/35505

http://risesecurity.org/advisories/RISE-2009001.txt

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-08-10

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical