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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-2662 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.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

No history.

Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:59:56.276Z

Reserved: 2009-08-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-2669

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-08-05T19:30:01.127

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-2669

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses