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National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5385

Original release date:12/09/2008
Last revised:12/17/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

enq in bos.rte.printers in IBM AIX 6.1.0 through 6.1.2, when a print queue is defined in /etc/qconfig, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:6.9 (MEDIUM) (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 10.0
Exploitability Subscore: 3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

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External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ34785
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ34481
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ33088
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021290
External Source: BID
Name: 32493
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32916
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 50217
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/aix61_advisory.asc

Vulnerable software and versions

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* Denotes Vulnerable Software

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
  • Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)