CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-2233

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in multiple 'p' commands in IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3. A local user can exploit long command line arguments to execute arbitrary code via commands such as penable, pdisable, pstart, phold, pdelay, or pshare.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential privilege escalation by a local user, which could lead to system compromise and integrity violation.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately apply security patches provided by IBM for AIX and restrict local access to trusted users.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in multiple "p" commands in IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments to (1) penable or other hard-linked files including (2) pdisable, (3) pstart, (4) phold, (5) pdelay, or (6) pshare.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS