CVE-2009-1786 Information

Description

The malloc subsystem in libc in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the log file associated with the MALLOCDEBUG environment variable.

Reference

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libc_advisory.asc http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=802 http://secunia.com/advisories/35146 http://securitytracker.com/id?1022261 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50121 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50129 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50139 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50445 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50447 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50500 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ50517 http://www.osvdb.org/54617 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35034 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1380 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50636 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6276 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9306