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IBM AIX Named8 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

AIX is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability

A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands with superuser privileges on the affected computer. The attacker must have 'system group' permissions to exploit this issue.

AIX 5.2 and 5.3 are affected by this vulnerability.