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Re: AIX 4.2 lquerylv

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bollinger)
Mon May 26 19:19:28 1997

Date: 	Mon, 26 May 1997 16:26:31 -0500
Reply-To: Bollinger <troy@AUSTIN.IBM.COM>
From: Bollinger <troy@AUSTIN.IBM.COM>
X-To:         guninski@hotmail.com
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To:  <199705260637.JAA16791@mail.techno-link.com> from "Georgi
              Guninski" at May 26, 97 09:36:36 am

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Georgi Guninski wrote:
>
> There is a buffer overflow in /usr/sbin/lquerylv which spawns a root shell
> under AIX 4.2, probably 4.x,3.x.
> SOLUTION: #chmod -s /usr/sbin/lquerylv
> Tested on AIX 4.2 RS/6000 box.
>

This (and several other LVM related buffer overflows) are fixed in
the following APARs:

AIX 3.2
=======

  APAR IX66230  (PTF U447739)

AIX 4.1
=======

  APAR IX66231

  Fileset bos.rte.lvm should be 4.1.5.7 or later.

AIX 4.2
=======

  APAR IX66232

  Fileset bos.rte.lvm should be 4.2.0.12 or later.


A cumulative security APAR is also available from FixDist...

AIX 3.2
=======

  APAR IX67999

AIX 4.1
=======

  APAR IX67997

AIX 4.2
=======

  APAR IX67998


- --
+--------------  I do not speak for IBM!  -----------------+
|Troy Bollinger             |                    92CBR600F2|
|AIX Security Development   |           troy@austin.ibm.com|
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