IBM AIX MKLVCopy Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:17115

Info

IBM AIX MKLVCopy Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 17115
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2006-1246
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 15 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 24 2006 09:26PM
Credit: This issue was discovered by Yang Jilong of NSFocus Security Team.
Vulnerable: IBM AIX 5.3
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

IBM AIX MKLVCopy Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

IBM AIX is susceptible to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability in the 'mklvcopy' command.

IBM AIX version 5.3 is affected by this issue.

Exploit / POC

IBM AIX MKLVCopy Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]

Solution / Fix

IBM AIX MKLVCopy Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
IBM has released an APAR to address this issue.


IBM AIX 5.3

References

IBM AIX MKLVCopy Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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