CVE-2009-2669

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-2669
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-08-05 19:30:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Ibm Aix 5.3 All All All
Operating System Ibm Aix 6.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM notice: The page you requested cannot be displayed af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ibm.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
IBM notice: The page you requested cannot be displayed af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ibm.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
IBM notice: The page you requested cannot be displayed af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ibm.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
IZ54091: July 2009 IBM XL C++ Runtime for AIX, V10.1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ibm.com
aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 aix.software.ibm.com Vendor Advisory
IBM AIX libC XL C++ Runtime Library Privilege Escalation - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
IZ54090: July 2009 IBM XL C++ Runtime for AIX, V9.0 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ibm.com
IBM AIX '_LIB_INIT_DBG' and '_LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE' File Creation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
Public Advisory: 08.04.09 // iDefense Labs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 labs.idefense.com
IZ54593: July 2009 IBM XL C++ Runtime for AIX, V8.0 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ibm.com
IBM notice: The page you requested cannot be displayed af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ibm.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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