CVE-2009-2669

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…

published August 5, 2009

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00715 · 53.2th percentile
Published
2009-08-05T19:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 AUG 19:00Z
    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…
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