CWE Code: 264
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.2
CWE Name:  Permissions Privileges and Access Controls
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2009-08-05
Last Modified Date: 2009-08-12