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IBM AIX LSMCode Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

IBM AIX is prone to a local vulnerability in the 'lsmcode' command. Attackers may be able to execute arbitrary machine code with superuser privileges.

IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 are affected by this issue.