National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2669
Original release date:08/05/2009
Last revised:08/12/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1.
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
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: 35934
Type: Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ56206
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ56205
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ56204
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ56203
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-2151
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36156
External Source: IDEFENSE
Name: 20090804 IBM AIX libC _LIB_INIT_DBG Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerability
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.asc
Type: Advisory