Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 5, 2009· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2009-2669
CVE-2009-2669
Description
A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1.
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References
12- www.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/35934nvdPatch
- aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.ascnvdVendor Advisory
- labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.phpnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/36156nvd
- www.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvd
- www.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvd
- www.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2151nvd
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