CERT Advisory <cert-advisory@cert.org> writes: > IBM > > IBM's AIX operating system, versions 4.3 and 5.1, are susceptible to > this vulnerability. Previous versions of AIX seem to be affected, too. At least AIX 4.2 comes with a login implementation which offers the same environment variable passing functionality found in AIX 4.3, and passing large numbers of arguments results in strange behavior. The tested login implementation seems to be contained in: Fileset Level State Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- bos.rte.security 4.2.1.0 C Base Security Function 4.2.1.1 C Base Security Function -- Florian Weimer Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898