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CVE-2007-5805

cfgcon in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 does not properly validate the argument to the "-p" option to swcons, which allows local users in the system g

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Summary

cfgcon in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 does not properly validate the argument to the "-p" option to swcons, which allows local users in the system group to create an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, via a symlink attack involving use of the file's name as the argument. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5804.

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exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com

secunia.com

securityfocus.com

www-1.ibm.com

aix.software.ibm.com

labs.idefense.com

www14.software.ibm.com