Vigil@nce: AIX, privilege elevations
December 2008 by Vigil@nce
SYNTHESIS
A local attacker can use several AIX vulnerabilities in order to
elevate his privileges.
Gravity: 2/4
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged access/rights
Provenance: user shell
Means of attack: no proof of concept, no attack
Ability of attacker: expert (4/4)
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5)
Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)
Number of vulnerabilities in this bulletin: 4
Creation date: 27/11/2008
IMPACTED PRODUCTS
– IBM AIX
DESCRIPTION
A local attacker can use several AIX vulnerabilities in order to
elevate his privileges.
The netcd daemon uses the /usr/sbin/ndp suid root program. A local
attacker can generate a buffer overflow in ndp in order to elevate
his privileges. [grav:2/4; IZ35170, IZ35181, IZ35209]
A local attacker with the aix.network.config.tcpip autorisation
can use a buffer overflow of /usr/sbin/autoconf6 in order to
elevate his privileges. [grav:1/4; IZ30231, IZ34393, IZ34753]
When a print queue is defined in /etc/qconfig, a local attacker
can use /usr/bin/enq to delete a file. [grav:1/4; IZ33088,
IZ34481, IZ34785]
An attacker with the aix.system.config.cron privilege can use an
editor with elevated privileges via /usr/bin/crontab. [grav:1/4;
IZ30248, IZ34478, IZ34783]
CHARACTERISTICS
Identifiers: BID-32493, IZ30231, IZ30248, IZ33088, IZ34393,
IZ34478, IZ34481, IZ34753, IZ34783, IZ34785, IZ35170, IZ35181,
IZ35209, VIGILANCE-VUL-8269