CVE-2009-1786
Published May 26, 2009
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.9
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-362
Configurations
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