CVE-2005-3396

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

IBM AIX

First reported 19 years ago

2005-11-01 12:47:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

IBM AIX 5.1

5.1

IBM AIX 5.1L

5.1l

IBM AIX 5.2

5.2

IBM AIX 5.2.2

5.2.2

IBM AIX 5.2 L

5.2_l

IBM AIX 5.3

5.3

IBM AIX 5.3 L

5.3_l

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