Title: IBM AIX Inventory Scout Local Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
IBM Inventory Scout is an application that gathers hardware inventory for a system.
IBM AIX Inventory Scout is prone to a local arbitrary-file-overwrite vulnerability.
This issue presents itself as an unspecified security vulnerability in 'invscoutClient_VPD_Survey', which is used by Inventory Scout when performing a survey of the virtual product database. It is installed setuid-superuser.
A local attacker may be able to exploit this issue to overwrite arbitrary files and corrupt sensitive data, which could lead to denial-of-service conditions. Privilege-escalation attacks may be possible as well.
IBM Inventory Scout 2.2 for AIX versions 5.2 and 5.3 is vulnerable to this issue.
Affected Products:
- IBM AIX 5.2
- IBM AIX 5.3
References:
- IBM: AIX Fixes
- IBM: AIX Homepage
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