CVE-2016-5985

CWE-119 — Buffer Overflow3 documents3 sources
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.1%
top 79.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
IBM Tivoli Storage ManagerIBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager
Timeline
PublishedFeb 1
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5ibm_corporation/tivoli_storage_manager54 versions+53

Patches

Patch: www.ibm.com ↗Patch: www.ibm.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h455-4gj2-4v9g: The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect) AIX client is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when Journal-Based Backup is enabled↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2016-5985: The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect) AIX client is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when Journal-Based Backup is enabled↗2017-02-01
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CVE-2016-5985 (HIGH CVSS 7.8) | The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM | cvebase.io