Privilege escalation vulnerability in IBM Installation Manager and Packaging Utility

Privilege escalation vulnerability in IBM Installation Manager and Packaging Utility

CVE-2015-7442 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

consoleinst.sh in IBM Installation Manager before 1.7.4.4 and 1.8.x before 1.8.4 and Packaging Utility before 1.7.4.4 and 1.8.x before 1.8.4 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program that is located in /tmp with a name based on a predicted PID value.

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