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TITLE:
IBM AIX Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26420

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26420/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
AIX 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/213/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM AIX, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

1) Boundary errors within the chpath, rmpath, and devinstall commands
can be exploited by a user in the system group to cause buffer
overflows.

2) A boundary error within the fileplace command can be exploited to
cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with root
privileges.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 5.2.0 and 5.3.0.

SOLUTION:
Apply APARs:
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/unixservers/aixfixes.html

AIX 5.2.0:
APAR IZ00531
APAR IZ00154

AIX 5.3.0:
APAR IZ01433
APAR IZ00149

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README

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