CVE-2008-4018

swcons in bos.rte.console in IBM AIX 5.2.0 through 6.1.1 allows local users in the system group to create or overwrite an arbitrary file, and establish weak permissions and root ownership for this file, via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this can be leveraged to gain privileges. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5805.

Link	Resource
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18341
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/swcons_advisory.asc
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18338
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18335
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30999
http://secunia.com/advisories/31739
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ28943
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18334
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020818
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ18339
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2490
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44903
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5932

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Published : 2008-09-11 01:13

Updated : 2017-09-29 01:31

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NVD link : CVE-2008-4018

Mitre link : CVE-2008-4018

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