Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in IBM AIX, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in Perl. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3724

Affected Products

IBM AIX 5.2
IBM AIX 5.3
IBM AIX 6.1

Solution

Apply interim fix :
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/perl_ifix.tar

IBM AIX 5.2 - Apply APAR IZ10220 (available approx. 01/15/2008)
IBM AIX 5.3 through TL06 - Apply APAR IZ10244 (available approx. 02/06/2008)
IBM AIX 5.3 TL07 - Apply APAR IZ10244 (available approx. 02/06/2008)
IBM AIX 6.1 - Apply APAR IZ10244 (available approx. 02/20/2008)

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4255
ftp://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/README

ChangeLog

2007-12-19 : Initial release

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