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CVE-2009-1786

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.9 Published: 2009-05-26 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Ibm Aix

Weakness Type

CWE-362

References