AIX dtaction Vulnerability

BID:361

Info

AIX dtaction Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 361
Class: Unknown
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jun 10 1997 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 10 1997 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was posted to the Bugtraq mailing list by Georgi Guninski <[email protected]> on Tue, 10 June 1997.
Vulnerable: 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
IBM AIX 3.2
IBM AIX 3.1
Not Vulnerable: IBM AIX 4.3
IBM AIX 4.2.1

Discussion

AIX dtaction Vulnerability

Under certain versions of AIX /usr/dt/bin/dtaction has a buffer overflow condition vulnerability. This vulnerability is in the code which handles the $HOME environment variable. Given that dtaction is SUID root, this vulnerability to can be exploited for root privileges.

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AIX dtaction Vulnerability

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