The malloc subsystem in libc in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the log file associated with the MALLOCDEBUG environment variable.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-05-26T15:16:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:27:54.273Z

Reserved: 2009-05-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-1786

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-05-26T15:30:05.390

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:03:21.563

Link: CVE-2009-1786

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