AIX Kerberos 5 Vulnerability

BID:436

Info

AIX Kerberos 5 Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 436
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jul 02 1998 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 02 1998 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was published to the IBM APAR Database on July 2, 1998. The SecurityFocus Database entry for this problem is based wholly off that information.
Vulnerable: IBM AIX 4.3
Not Vulnerable: IBM AIX 4.3.2
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

Discussion

AIX Kerberos 5 Vulnerability

Under AIX 3.0 a user can imitate another user's Kerberos credentials by modifying the KRB5CCNAME environment variable.

Exploit / POC

AIX Kerberos 5 Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

AIX Kerberos 5 Vulnerability

Solution:
IBM has released the following APAR'S to address this problem:

AIX 4.3
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APAR # IX79857

References

AIX Kerberos 5 Vulnerability

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