Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4018

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-09-10 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:00:42
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

swcons in bos.rte.console in IBM AIX 5.2.0 through 6.1.1 allows local users in the system group to create or overwrite an arbitrary file, and establish weak permissions and root ownership for this file, via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5805.