Title: AIX named-xfer File Overwrite Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
A vulnerability in the 'named-xfer' executable allows members of the 'system' group to overwrite any file in the system.
The '/usr/sbin/named-xfer' file under AIX is setuid root and only executable by members of the 'system' group. By using the '-f' command line parameter to named-xfer members of the system group can overwrite any file on the system with a DNS zone file.
A cleverly written zone file used to overwrite say /.rhosts could be used to obtain root access to the system.
The defect ticket 287556 has been opened to fix this issue.
Affected Products:
- IBM AIX 4.1.5
- IBM AIX 4.2.1
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