| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2012-4833 (CCN-78907) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 2012-09-28 | ||||||||
| Published: | 2012-09-28 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2021-08-31 | ||||||||
| Summary: | fuser in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.1.4-FP-25 SP-02, does not properly restrict the -k option, which allows local users to kill arbitrary processes via a crafted command line. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 4.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 2.1 Low (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) 1.8 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:H/RL:OF/RC:C)
1.8 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:H/RL:OF/RC:C)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-264 | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Denial of Service | ||||||||
| References: | Source: CCN Type: IBM SECURITY ADVISORY AIX fuser vulnerability Source: CONFIRM Type: Patch, Vendor Advisory http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/fuser_advisory.asc Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2012-4833 Source: CCN Type: SA50708 IBM AIX "fuser" Command Denial of Service Source: SECUNIA Type: UNKNOWN 50708 Source: AIXAPAR Type: UNKNOWN IV28151 Source: AIXAPAR Type: UNKNOWN IV28749 Source: AIXAPAR Type: UNKNOWN IV28754 Source: AIXAPAR Type: UNKNOWN IV28756 Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 85869 IBM AIX fuser Command -k Argument Command Line Parsing Local Process DoS Source: BID Type: UNKNOWN 55726 Source: CCN Type: BID-55726 IBM AIX CVE-2012-4833 Local Denial of Service Vulnerability Source: SECTRACK Type: UNKNOWN 1027586 Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN ibm-aix-fuser-dos(78907) Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN aix-fuser-kill-process(78907) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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