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From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-adv
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Date: Mon Mar 10 2008 - 18:17:04 CDT
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TITLE:
AIX "man" Insecure Program Execution Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29301
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29301/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
AIX 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/16995/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in AIX, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The problem is that "man" invokes other binaries without full
pathnames. This may be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of a user running "man" by placing a malicious program in
the path.
SOLUTION:
Apply APAR.
AIX 6.1.0:
Apply APAR IZ17177.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ17177
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