CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5985

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-02-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-02-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect) AIX client is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when Journal-Based Backup is enabled. A local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a system crash.

Affected configurations

• ibm tivoli storage manager (<= 7.1.6.2) • ibm tivoli storage manager 7.1.0.0 • ibm tivoli storage manager (<= 6.4.3.3) • ibm tivoli storage manager 6.4.0.0 • ibm tivoli storage manager (<= 6.3.2.5) • ibm tivoli storage manager 6.3.0.0 • ibm tivoli storage manager (<= 6.1) • ibm tivoli storage manager (<= 6.2) • ibm tivoli storage manager (<= 5.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References