A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T05:59:56.276Z
Reserved: 2009-08-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2009-2669

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Status : Modified
Published: 2009-08-05T19:30:01.127
Modified: 2024-11-21T01:05:27.093
Link: CVE-2009-2669

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