IBM AIX Inventory Scout Local Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

BID:20199

CVE-2006-5002 |

Info

IBM AIX Inventory Scout Local Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 20199
Class: Unknown
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Sep 25 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 26 2006 09:36PM
Credit: The vendor has disclosed this issue.
Vulnerable: IBM AIX 5.3
IBM AIX 5.2
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

IBM AIX Inventory Scout Local Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

IBM AIX Inventory Scout is prone to a local arbitrary-file-overwrite vulnerability.

A local attacker may be able to exploit this issue to overwrite arbitrary files and corrupt sensitive data, which could lead to denial-of-service conditions. Privilege-escalation attacks may be possible as well.

IBM Inventory Scout 2.2 for AIX versions 5.2 and 5.3 is vulnerable to this issue.

Exploit / POC

IBM AIX Inventory Scout Local Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

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

Solution / Fix

IBM AIX Inventory Scout Local Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

Solution:
IBM has released an advisory and interim fixes to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


IBM AIX 5.2

IBM AIX 5.3

References

IBM AIX Inventory Scout Local Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

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