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Vigil@nce - AIX: privilege escalation via ibstat
June 2013 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
A local attacker can use a vulnerability of the ibstat command of
AIX, in order to escalate his privileges.
– Impacted products: AIX
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 07/06/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The suid /usr/sbin/ibstat command displays statistics on
InfiniBand network devices
However, a local attacker can use a vulnerability of the ibstat
command of AIX, in order to escalate his privileges.
Technical details are unknown.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/AIX-privilege-escalation-via-ibstat-12924
