National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0370
Original release date:01/30/2009
Last revised:02/02/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in IBM AIX 5.2.0 through 6.1.2 allow local users to append data to arbitrary files, related to (1) rmsock and (2) rmsock64 not creating "secure log files."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
**NOTE: Access Complexity scored Low due to insufficient information
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 33522
Type: Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ42788
Type: Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ42787
Type: Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ42786
Type: Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ42785
Type: Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ41599
Type: Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ41510
Type: Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ40386
Type: Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ41593
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/rmsock_advisory.asc