CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2233

7.2 HIGH Published 2005-07-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2005-07-12
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 multiple "p" commands in IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments to (1) penable or other hard-linked files including (2) pdisable, (3) pstart, (4) phold, (5) pdelay, or (6) pshare.

Affected configurations

• ibm aix 5.1 • ibm aix 5.1l • ibm aix 5.2 • ibm aix 5.2.2 • ibm aix 5.2 l • ibm aix 5.3 • ibm aix 5.3 l

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/15636 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014132 securitytracker.com
http://www.caughq.org/advisories/CAU-2005-0006.txt Vendor Advisory
http://www.security-focus.com/advisories/8684 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13915 Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/15636 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014132 securitytracker.com
http://www.caughq.org/advisories/CAU-2005-0006.txt Vendor Advisory
http://www.security-focus.com/advisories/8684 Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13915 Patch