CVE-2007-5805 Information

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.

Reference

ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/cfgcon_ifix.tar http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=611 http://secunia.com/advisories/27437 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26258 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ03055 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ03061 http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/ijhifoeblist?mode=7&heading=AIX53&path=2F2007102FSECURITY2F200710302Fdatafile100405 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38154