50217 : IBM AIX bos.rte.printers /usr/bin/enq Arbitrary File Deletion
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2008-11-27

Keywords

IZ34785, IZ34481, IZ33088

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-5385" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : enq in bos.rte.printers in IBM AIX 6.1.0 through 6.1.2, when a print queue is defined in /etc/qconfig, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Solution: Patch / RCS
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1021290
CVE ID: 2008-5385 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 32916
Related OSVDB ID: 50215 50216 50218
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/aix61_advisory.asc
Other Advisory URL: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ33088
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ34481
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ34785

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.9
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-12-09 | Disagree?

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