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CVE-2005-2232

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-07-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in invscout in IBM AIX 5.1.0 through 5.3.0 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a long command line argument.

Affected products

• IBM AIX: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/15636
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014132
• http://www.caughq.org/advisories/CAU-2005-0002.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/8816
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13909
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15636
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014132
• http://www.caughq.org/advisories/CAU-2005-0002.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/8816
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13909

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