CVE-2009-2669

HighCVSS 7.2/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

A certain debugging component in IBM AIX 5.3 and 6.1 does not properly handle the (1) _LIB_INIT_DBG and (2) _LIB_INIT_DBG_FILE environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging a setuid-root program to create an arbitrary root-owned file with world-writable permissions, related to libC.a (aka the XL C++ runtime library) in AIX 5.3 and libc.a in AIX 6.1.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.2/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
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References

Timeline

Published
Aug 5, 2009
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2009-2669: High severity, CVSS 7.2 | Vulnix