6.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2009-1786

Published: 26/05/2009 Updated: 29/09/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 695
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The malloc subsystem in libc in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the log file associated with the MALLOCDEBUG environment variable.

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ibm aix 5.3

ibm aix 6.1

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/35038/info The Webshield feature of Kingsoft Internet Security 9 is prone to a remote cross-site scripting and command-execution vulnerability Remote attackers may exploit this vulnerability to compromise an affected computer This issue affects WebShield 11062 and prior versions wwwexample ...
This exploit takes advantage of known issues with debugging functions within the AIX linker library It takes advantage of known functionality, and focuses on badly coded SUID binaries which do not adhere to proper security checks prior to seteuid/open/writes ...