CVE-2009-2669
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 0.7%
from disclosure to weapon37 days
Published on NVDAug 5
1st PoC+37d
exploitation probability
0.7%top 50% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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 products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/9645⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.aschttp://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=815http://secunia.com/advisories/36156http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54090http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54091http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54593http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56203http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56204http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56205http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56206http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35934http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2151