Security Advisory

CVE-2005-0240

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-02-07 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 21:05:25
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Format string vulnerability in chdev on IBM AIX 5.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a command line argument, which is not properly handled when printing an error message.