Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in IBM AIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
IBM AIX "at" Command Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26437
VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/26437/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
AIX 5.x
https://secunia.com/product/213/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in IBM AIX, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the "at"
command and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with root
privileges.
The vulnerability is reported in version 5.3.0.
SOLUTION:
Apply APAR IZ00139.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README
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