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CVE-2008-1596

CVE information

Published

15 years ago

Last Modified

13 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

Trusted Execution in IBM AIX 6.1 uses an incorrect pathname argument in a call to the trustchk_block_write function, which might allow local users to modify trusted files, related to missing checks in the TSD_FILES_LOCK policy for modifications performed via hard links, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-6680..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.2/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -