CVE-2007-0392

Publication date

2007-01-19 23:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

IBM AIX 5.3 does not properly verify the status of file descriptors before setuid execution, which allows local users to gain privileges by closing file descriptor 0, 1, or 2 and then invoking a setuid program, a variant of CVE-2002-0572.