EDB-1046

functional

AIX 5.2 - 'paginit' Local Privilege Escalation

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor intropypublished 2005-06-14catalog exploit_db

exploited CVEs (2)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2005-2232US	medium4.6	1.16% (67th)	Exploit	2005-07-12
Buffer overflow in invscout in IBM AIX 5.1.0 through 5.3.0 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a long command line argument.
CVE-2005-2236US	high7.2	1.07% (65th)	Exploit	2005-07-12
Format string vulnerability in the paginit command in IBM AIX 5.3, and possibly other versions, might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via format strings in command line…

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