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A vulnerability was found in IBM AIX 5.3/6.1 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Subsystem. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
The malloc subsystem in libc in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the log file associated with the MALLOCDEBUG environment variable.
The issue has been introduced in 08/01/2004. The weakness was released 05/20/2009 by Hector X. Monsegur (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securitytracker.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2009-1786 since 05/26/2009. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.
A public exploit has been developed by Hector X. Monsegur in Shell File and been published 9 years after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1754 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 64327 (AIX 6.1 TL 0 : libc (IZ50139)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family AIX Local Security Checks.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (50636), Tenable (64327) and Exploit-DB (40710). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 66963, 49263 and 93536.
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Class: Race conditionCWE: CWE-362
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Hector X. Monsegur
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Nessus ID: 64327
Nessus Name: AIX 6.1 TL 0 : libc (IZ50139)
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Timeline
08/01/2004 🔍05/19/2009 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: ibm.comAdvisory: securitytracker.com⛔
Researcher: Hector X. Monsegur
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-1786 (🔍)
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X-Force: 50636
SecurityTracker: 1022261 - IBM AIX libc MALLOCDEBUG File Overwrite Bug Lets Local Users Gain Root Privileges
Vulnerability Center: 22828 - IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 Local File Manipulation Vulnerability via a Symlink Attack, Medium
SecurityFocus: 35034 - IBM AIX 'MALLOCDEBUG' File Overwrite Vulnerability
Secunia: 35146 - IBM AIX libc MALLOCDEBUG Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 54617 - IBM AIX libc MALLOCDEBUG Environment Variable Local Privilege Escalation
Vupen: ADV-2009-1380
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entry
Created: 03/17/2015 23:38Updated: 08/11/2021 10:48
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (68), 02/11/2017 10:32 (25), 08/11/2021 10:48 (3)
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