CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-4604

7.2 HIGH Published 2010-12-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-12-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the GeneratePassword function in dsmtca (aka the Trusted Communications Agent or TCA) in the backup-archive client in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 5.3.x before 5.3.6.10, 5.4.x before 5.4.3.4, 5.5.x before 5.5.2.10, and 6.1.x before 6.1.3.1 on Unix and Linux allows local users to gain privileges by specifying a long LANG environment variable, and then sending a request over a pipe.

Affected configurations

• ibm tivoli storage manager (>= 5.3.0 <= 5.3.6.7) • ibm tivoli storage manager (>= 5.4.0 <= 5.4.3.3) • ibm tivoli storage manager (>= 5.5.0 <= 5.5.2.7) • ibm tivoli storage manager (>= 6.1.0 <= 6.1.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References