Re: [Full-Disclosure] AIX 4.3.3 has make sgid 0?

[Sullivan . Danielj]

The "make" to worry about appears to be the one in /usr/local/bin, not /usr/ccs/bin.  See the sample exploit script at the usual spot.

The problem appears to be with GNU's make, which is installed setgid (by default) on AIX so as to enable the "-l load" option.  This option is used to throttle the number of jobs created by "make" as the system load increases (especially during parallel makes).

I haven't checked whether /usr/local/bin/make is part of some supplemental AIX package, or just happens to be on those systems where the admin installed GNU make.