Security Advisory

CVE-2007-4799

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-09-10 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 15:08:33
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The perfstat kernel extension in bos.perf.perfstat in AIX 5.3 does not verify privileges when processing a SET call, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang or crash) via unspecified SET operations.