CWE Code: 264
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.2
CWE Name:  Permissions Privileges and Access Controls
Summary: the checkpoint and restart feature in the kernel in ibm aix 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1 does not properly protect kernel memory, which allows local users to read and modify portions of memory and gain privileges via unspecified vectors involving a restart of a 64-bit process, probably related to the as_getadsp64 function.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2008-03-31
Last Modified Date: 2017-09-29