CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2669

7.2 HIGH Published 2009-08-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-08-05
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

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.

Affected configurations

• ibm aix 5.3 • ibm aix 6.1

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References