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AIX Logical Volume Manager buffer overflow -AIX 5.2

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AIX Logical Volume Manager buffer overflow -AIX 5.2

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/22/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/05/2014
Modified
10/05/2015

Description

The AIX Logical Volume Manager provides a suite of utilities for AIX logical volume management features and functions. The primary fileset for the AIX Logical Volume Manager is 'bos.rte.lvm'. In addition, AIX provides another suite of utilities for concurrent logical volume management across multiple hosts. The primary fileset for the AIX Concurrent Logical Volume Manager is 'bos.clvm.enh'. Several imporant commands provided by these filesets for performing various logical volume management tasks have been identified as containing buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

Solution(s)

  • aix-5.2-lvm_advisory

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