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IBM AIX crontab Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

IBM AIX 'crontab' is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate length checks on user-supplied input.

Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code using superuser privileges. Successful exploits will completely compromise affected computers.