40393 : IBM AIX invscout.rte Inventory Scout invscout Arbitrary Local File Deletion
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2007-05-11

Keywords

APAR IY98506

Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : Unspecified vulnerability in invscout in Inventory Scout in invscout.rte in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users to delete system files that have names matching the final substring of a hostname alias, as demonstrated by hostnames ending in "unix".

Classification

Unknown or Incomplete

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2007-4798 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 25556
Secunia Advisory ID: 26715
Related OSVDB ID: 40394 40395 40396 40397 40398 40399 40400 40401 40402 40403 40404 40405 40406 40407
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-3059
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY98506
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=3846
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=3847
Other Advisory URL: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY98506

Credit

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CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.6
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-09-11 | Disagree?

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