National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1798
Original release date:04/02/2007
Last revised:11/13/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in the drmgr command in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long path name.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1186
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: ibmaix-drmgr-bo(33354)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017841
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IY96772
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IY96753
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IY95054
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 34981