Title: AIX dtaction Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Under certain versions of AIX /usr/dt/bin/dtaction has a buffer overflow condition vulnerability. This vulnerability is in the code which handles the $HOME environment variable. Given that dtaction is SUID root, this vulnerability to can be exploited for root privileges.
Affected Products:
- IBM AIX 3.1.0
- IBM AIX 3.2.0
- IBM AIX 3.2.4
- IBM AIX 3.2.5
- IBM AIX 4.1.0
- IBM AIX 4.1.1
- IBM AIX 4.1.2
- IBM AIX 4.1.3
- IBM AIX 4.1.4
- IBM AIX 4.1.5
- IBM AIX 4.2.0
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