CVE-2004-2388 Information

Description

rexecd for AIX 4.3.3 does not properly use a local copy of the pwd structure when calling getpwnam which may cause the structure to be overwritten by the authenticate function and assign privileges to the wrong user.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/11085 http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-102.shtml http://www.osvdb.org/4248 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9835 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY53507 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15455