CVE-2009-2669
A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1.
- Affected products
- Aix
- Ibm Aix
- = 5.3, 6.1
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.2 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.7% (51th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-05
CVE-2009-2669 at NVD
10 known exploits for CVE-2009-2669
Proof-of-concept code and exploit modules indexed by Sploitus
IBM AIX 5.36.17.17.2 - lquerylv Local Privilege Escalation
AIX 5.3 / 6.1 / 7.1 / 7.2 lquerylv Local Root
IBM AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1/7.2 - 'lquerylv' Local Privilege Escalation
IBM AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1/7.2 - 'lquerylv' Privilege Escalation Exploit
IBM AIX 5.6/6.1 - _LIB_INIT_DBG Arbitrary File Overwrite via Libc Debug
IBM AIX 5.6/6.1 _LIB_INIT_DBG Arbitrary File Overwrite via Libc Debug
IBM AIX 5.6/6.1 _LIB_INIT_DBG Arbitrary File Overwrite via Libc Debug
IBM AIX 5.66.1 - _LIB_INIT_DBG Arbitrary File Overwrite via Libc Debug
IBM AIX 5.6/6.1 - '_LIB_INIT_DBG' Arbitrary File Overwrite via Libc Debug
IBM AIX 5.6/6.1 File Overwrite