CVE-2009-1786

CVE-2009-1786 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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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