CVE-2007-5805 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2007-5805 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 05/11/2007 | CVE Updated: 07/08/2024 | CVE Year: 2007
Source: mitre | Vendor: n/a | Product: n/a
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2007-5805 Description

cfgcon in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 does not properly validate the argument to the "-p" option to swcons, which allows local users in the system group to create an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, via a symlink attack involving use of the file\'s name as the argument. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5804.

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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).