CVE-2009-2669

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

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Information

Published : 2009-08-05 19:30

Updated : 2023-12-10 10:51


NVD link : CVE-2009-2669

Mitre link : CVE-2009-2669

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2009-2669


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Products Affected

ibm

  • aix
CWE
CWE-264

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