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AIX is a variant of the UNIX Operating System, distributed by IBM. A problem exists which can allow a local user elevated priviledges. The problem exists in the piobe program. Due to the insuffient handling of the PIOSTATUSFILE, PIOTITLE, and PIOVARDIR environment variables, it's possible to overwrite stack variables. This makes it possible for a malicious user to pass specially formatted strings to the program via environment variables, and potentially gain administrative access.

AIX is a variant of the UNIX Operating System, distributed by IBM. A problem exists which can allow a local user elevated priviledges. The problem exists in the piobe program. Due to the insuffient handling of the PIOSTATUSFILE, PIOTITLE, and PIOVARDIR environment variables, it's possible to overwrite stack variables. This makes it possible for a malicious user to pass specially formatted strings to the program via environment variables, and potentially gain administrative access.