From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 18:10:04 CST

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TITLE:
IBM AIX "pppdial" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34005

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34005/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in IBM AIX, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to potentially gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the "pppdial"
program and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via an input
string having more than 4000 characters.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with
escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in AIX versions 5.3 and 6.1.

SOLUTION:
Apply fixes or APARs as soon as they become available.

Restrict local access to trusted users only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ44199

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