CVE-2002-1689

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unknown vulnerability in the login program on AIX before 4.0 could allow remote users to specify 100 or more environment variables when logging on, which exceeds the length of a certain string, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

Affected products

IBM AIX: 3.2.5

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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