IBM Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in bellmail, caccelstat, iostat, lquerypv, restbyinode, and vmstat affect AIX (CVE-2017-1692)

There is a potential root privilege escalation vulnerability in bellmail, caccelstat, iostat, lquerypv, restbyinode, and vmstat on AIX.

CVE(s): CVE-2017-1692

Affected product(s) and affected version(s):
AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, IOS 2.2.x

Refer to the following reference URLs for remediation and additional vulnerability details:
Source Bulletin: http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/suid_advisory.asc
X-Force Database: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134067

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