Description
Buffer overflow in (1) grpck and (2) pwck, if installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation, may allow local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/877811 ↗
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/121891 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7857 ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=vulnwatch&m=100998205010794&w=2 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7859 ↗
- http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/topic/com.ibm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds2/grpck.htm ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=100999352406822&w=2 ↗