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)  
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