Description
The malloc subsystem in libc in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the log file associated with the MALLOCDEBUG environment variable.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libc_advisory.asc ↗
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50445 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6276 ↗
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50447 ↗
- http://www.osvdb.org/54617 ↗
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50121 ↗
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=802 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35034 ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9306 ↗
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1022261 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1380 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50636 ↗
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50517 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35146 ↗
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50500 ↗
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50129 ↗
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50139 ↗