cfgcon in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 does not properly validate the argument to the "-p" option to swcons, which allows local users in the system group to create or overwrite an arbitrary file, and enable world writability of this file, by using the file's name as the argument.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-11-05T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:47:00.214Z

Reserved: 2007-11-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-5804

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-05T17:46:00.000

Modified: 2017-07-29T01:33:52.943

Link: CVE-2007-5804

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