CVE-2002-1687

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the diagnostics library in AIX allows local users to "cause data and instructions to be overwritten" via a long DIAGNOSTICS environment variable.

Affected products

IBM AIX: all versions

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2002-q1/0005.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2002-q1/0005.html

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