CVE-2009-2669
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.7% (54th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-2662)
- Published
- August 5, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-2662 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ibm / aix
- ibm / aix
References
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/libC_advisory.asc(Vendor Advisory)
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=815
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36156
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54090
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54091
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ54593
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56203(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56204(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56205(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ56206(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35934(Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2151
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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