Local users can start Sendmail in daemon mode and gain root privileges.

ftpd in IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (port exhaustion and memory consumption) by using all ephemeral ports.

Buffer overflow in setsenv command in IBM AIX 4.3.x and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a long "x=" argument.

Format string vulnerability in the swcons command in IBM AIX 5.3, and possibly other versions, might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments.

IRIX and AIX automountd services (autofsd) allow remote users to execute root commands.

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 arguments.

netstat in AIX 4.x.x does not properly restrict access to the -Zi option, which allows local users to clear network interface statistics and possibly hide evidence of unusual network activities.

Buffer overflow in pioout command in IBM AIX 4.3.x and earlier may allow local users to execute arbitrary commands.

Buffer overflow in the diagTasksWebSM command in IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3, might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments.

Sendmail allows local users to write to a file and gain group permissions via a .forward or :include: file.

Buffer overflow in the getlvname command in IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3, might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments.

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Some functions that implement the locale subsystem on Unix do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via functions such as gettext and catopen.

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.

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.

AIX cdmount allows local users to gain root privileges via shell metacharacters.

Race condition in JFS2 on AIX 5.2 and 5.3, when deleting a file while I/O is still occurring for that file, may write data to a different file, which could leak sensitive information.

Oversized ICMP ping packets can result in a denial of service, aka Ping o' Death.

Unknown vulnerability in AIX 5.3.0, when configured as an NIS client, allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

Vulnerability in AIX 3.2.x and 4.x allows local users to gain write access to files on locally or remotely mounted AIX filesystems.

RC.BOOT in IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 does not "use a secure location for temporary files," which allows local users to have an unknown impact, probably by overwriting files.