Vulnerability CVE-2012-2179
Published: 2012-06-22

Description:
libodm.a in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
IBM AIX 6.1.8+ Privilege Escalation
Tim Brown
12.06.2014

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.9/10
10/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
IBM -> AIX 

 References:
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libodm_advisory.asc
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV21379
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV21381
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV21382
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV21383
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV22019
http://www.osvdb.org/83133
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027193
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/75510
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