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CVE-2009-2669

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2009-08-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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 Platforms

Ibm Aix

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References