Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-5007 - Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in IBM AIX 5.2.0/5.3.0
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in uucp in IBM AIX 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 allows local users to local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program involving uux.
Nessus
NASL family AIX Local Security Checks NASL id AIX_U808255.NASL description The remote host is missing AIX PTF U808255, which is related to the security of the package bos.net.uucp. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 65303 published 2013-03-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65303 title AIX 5.2 TL 9 / 5.2 TL 10 : bos.net.uucp (U808255) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted # from AIX Security PTF U808255. The text itself is copyright (C) # International Business Machines Corp. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(65303); script_version("1.2"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/16 14:12:47"); script_cve_id("CVE-2006-5007"); script_name(english:"AIX 5.2 TL 9 / 5.2 TL 10 : bos.net.uucp (U808255)"); script_summary(english:"Check for PTF U808255"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote AIX host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The remote host is missing AIX PTF U808255, which is related to the security of the package bos.net.uucp." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY88565" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY88568" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Install the appropriate missing security-related fix." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:ibm:aix:5.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2006/08/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/08/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/03/13"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"AIX Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AIX/oslevel", "Host/AIX/version", "Host/AIX/lslpp"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("aix.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/AIX/version") ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "AIX"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/AIX/lslpp") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if ( aix_check_patch(ml:"520009", patch:"U808255", package:"bos.net.uucp.5.2.0.96") < 0 ) flag++; if ( aix_check_patch(ml:"520010", patch:"U808255", package:"bos.net.uucp.5.2.0.96") < 0 ) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:aix_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family AIX Local Security Checks NASL id AIX_U807064.NASL description The remote host is missing AIX PTF U807064, which is related to the security of the package bos.net.uucp. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 65294 published 2013-03-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65294 title AIX 5.3 TL 5 / 5.3 TL 6 : bos.net.uucp (U807064)
References
- ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22105
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016921
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20196
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3770
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY88565
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY88614
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29156