CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-3396

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-11-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-11-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in the chcons (chcon) command in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3, when DEBUG MALLOC is enabled, might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long command line argument.

Affected configurations

• ibm aix 5.1 • ibm aix 5.1l • ibm aix 5.2 • ibm aix 5.2.2 • ibm aix 5.2 l • ibm aix 5.3 • ibm aix 5.3 l

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