AIX crontab Vulnerability

BID:357

Info

AIX crontab Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 357
Class: Unknown
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 05 1992 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 05 1992 12:00AM
Credit: This bug was released as CERT advisory CA-92.10 AIX Crontab Vulnerability.
Vulnerable: IBM AIX 3.2
IBM AIX 3.1
IBM AIX 2.2.1
IBM AIX 1.3
IBM AIX 1.2.1
Not Vulnerable: IBM AIX 4.3
IBM AIX 4.2.1
IBM AIX 4.2
IBM AIX 4.1.5
IBM AIX 4.1.4
IBM AIX 4.1.3
IBM AIX 4.1.2
IBM AIX 4.1.1
IBM AIX 4.1
IBM AIX 3.2.5
IBM AIX 3.2.4

Discussion

AIX crontab Vulnerability

The /usr/bin/crontab which shipped with AIX version 3.2 was apparently open to local user attack which could lead to root privelages. The CERT advisory which was issued on this subject was rather vague and gave no details as to what the problem was precisely.

Exploit / POC

AIX crontab Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

AIX crontab Vulnerability

Solution:
IBM issued the following APAR to deal with this problem:

APAR # ix26997

References

AIX crontab Vulnerability

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