CVE
- Id
- 29162
- CVE No.
- CVE-2007-5805
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- cfgcon in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 does not properly validate the argument to the "-p" option to swcons, which allows local users in the system group to create an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, via a symlink attack involving use of the file"s name as the argument. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5804.
- Phase
- Assigned (20071105)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments