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CVE-2009-1786

CVE-2009-1786

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 0.7%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDMay 26
1st PoCMay 20
exploitation probability
0.7%top 52% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
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 products
n/a · n/a
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