CVE-2009-2669
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Published: August 5, 2009 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:09 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAIX
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
Description
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.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (12)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.ascThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
Source: [email protected]
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=815Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54090Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54091Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54593Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56203Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56204Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264
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