CVEvulnerability
CVE-2001-0533
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2001-08-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
Buffer overflow in libi18n library in IBM AIX 5.1 and 4.3.x allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LANG environmental variable.
Affected configurations
• ibm aix 4.3
• ibm aix 5.1
References
- http://www-1.ibm.com/services/continuity/recover1.nsf/advisories/85256A3400529A8685256A8D00804A37/%24file/oar271.txt www-1.ibm.com
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-123.shtml www.ciac.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/5585 www.osvdb.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6863 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www-1.ibm.com/services/continuity/recover1.nsf/advisories/85256A3400529A8685256A8D00804A37/%24file/oar271.txt www-1.ibm.com
- http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-123.shtml www.ciac.org
- http://www.osvdb.org/5585 www.osvdb.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6863 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com