CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-1593

7.2 HIGH Published 2008-03-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-03-31
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
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

The checkpoint and restart feature in the kernel in IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1 does not properly protect kernel memory, which allows local users to read and modify portions of memory and gain privileges via unspecified vectors involving a restart of a 64-bit process, probably related to the as_getadsp64 function.

Affected configurations

• ibm aix 5.2 • ibm aix 5.3 • ibm aix 6.1

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References