CVE-2008-0586

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allow local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to the (1) lchangevg, (2) ldeletepv, (3) putlvodm, (4) lvaryoffvg, and (5) lvgenminor programs in bos.rte.lvm; and the (6) tellclvmd program in bos.clvm.enh.

Affected products

IBM AIX: 5.2, 5.3

References

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/lvm_advisory.asc
http://osvdb.org/40427
http://osvdb.org/40428
http://osvdb.org/40429
http://secunia.com/advisories/28609
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY98448
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY98450
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY98331
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY98340
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY99537
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ00559
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ10828

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