CVE-2009-2669

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.

CVSS v2.0

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 51th percentile

Published

2009-08-05

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9645

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2009-2656
• CVE-2009-2684
• CVE-2009-2655
• CVE-2009-2685
• CVE-2009-2654
• CVE-2009-2692