CVE-2008-5385

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-12-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

enq in bos.rte.printers in IBM AIX 6.1.0 through 6.1.2, when a print queue is defined in /etc/qconfig, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

IBM AIX: 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.1.2

References

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/aix61_advisory.asc
http://osvdb.org/50217
http://secunia.com/advisories/32916
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ33088
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ34481
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ34785
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32493
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021290
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/aix61_advisory.asc
http://osvdb.org/50217
http://secunia.com/advisories/32916
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ33088

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