PT-2002-2319 · Pwck+1 · Pwck+1

Published 2002-01-02 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2002-1594

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions grpck and pwck (affected versions not specified)

Description A buffer overflow issue exists in grpck and pwck. This issue may allow local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument, if these utilities are installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-1594

Affected Products

Grpck

Pwck

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-1594 · Security Note
• http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/topic/com.ibm.aix.doc/cmds/aixcmds2/grpck.htm · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7859 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=vulnwatch&m=100998205010794&w=2 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/121891 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/877811 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=100999352406822&w=2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7857 · Note