CVE-2009-1786
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-05-26 15:16
Modified
2024-08-07 05:27
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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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