Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in rexecd for AIX 4.3.3

CVE-2004-2388 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

rexecd for AIX 4.3.3 does not properly use a local copy of the pwd structure when calling getpwnam, which may cause the structure to be overwritten by the authenticate function and assign privileges to the wrong user.

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