CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-1786

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2009-05-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-05-26
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

The malloc subsystem in libc in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the log file associated with the MALLOCDEBUG environment variable.

Affected configurations

• ibm aix 5.3 • ibm aix 6.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References