IBM AIX Swcons Arbitrary File Access Vulnerability

BID:26258

Info

IBM AIX Swcons Arbitrary File Access Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 26258
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2007-5804
CVE-2007-5805
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Oct 30 2007 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 05 2016 10:00PM
Credit: Alex DeLarge is credited with discovering this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: IBM AIX 5.3
IBM AIX 5.2
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

IBM AIX Swcons Arbitrary File Access Vulnerability

AIX 'swcons' is prone to a vulnerability that lets attackers access arbitrary files because the utility fails to adequately verify user-supplied input.

A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges. Note that to run the 'swcons' utility, local users must belong to the 'system' group.

This issue affects AIX 5.2 and 5.3; fixes are available.

Exploit / POC

IBM AIX Swcons Arbitrary File Access Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, an attacker needs local interactive access to the computer.

Solution / Fix

IBM AIX Swcons Arbitrary File Access Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released updates to address this issue. Please see the vendor references for more information.


IBM AIX 5.2

IBM AIX 5.3

References

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