Vulnerability CVE-2002-1594
Published: 2002-01-02   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Buffer overflow in (1) grpck and (2) pwck, if installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation, may allow local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
PWCK -> PWCK 
Grpck -> Grpck 

 References:
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=100999352406822&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=vulnwatch&m=100998205010794&w=2
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/topic/com.ibm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds2/grpck.htm
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/121891
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/877811
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7857
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7859
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