CVE-2007-4798
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-09-10 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:08
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in invscout in Inventory Scout in invscout.rte in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users to delete system files that have names matching the final substring of a hostname alias, as demonstrated by hostnames ending in "unix".
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