Vulnerability in IBM Aix

CVE-2009-1786

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.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.007 (48.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Ibm Aix — versions 5.3, 6.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References