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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2009-2727 EUVD-2009-2718GHSA-g463-6wfq-2jp4

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _tt_internal_realpath function in the ToolTalk library (libtt.a) in IBM AIX 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.3.7 through …

Published Aug 10, 2009 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _tt_internal_realpath function in the ToolTalk library (libtt.a) in IBM AIX 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.3.7 through 5.3.10, and 6.1.0 through 6.1.3, when the rpc.ttdbserver daemon is enabled in /etc/inetd.conf, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long XDR-encoded ASCII string to remote procedure 15.

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 1

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