Security Advisory

CVE-2007-0392

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-01-19 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 12:19:29
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

IBM AIX 5.3 does not properly verify the status of file descriptors before setuid execution, which allows local users to gain privileges by closing file descriptor 0, 1, or 2 and then invoking a setuid program, a variant of CVE-2002-0572.