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CVE-2009-3699

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 62.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-10-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in libcsa.a (aka the calendar daemon library) in IBM AIX 5.x through 5.3.10 and 6.x through 6.1.3, and VIOS 2.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long XDR string in the first argument to procedure 21 of rpc.cmsd.

Affected products

• IBM AIX: 5, 5.1, 5.1.0.10, 5.1l, 5.2, 5.2.0 (+20)
• IBM VIOS: through 2.1.0; 1.4, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2

References

• http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/cmsd_advisory.asc
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=825
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36978
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022996
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ61628
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ61717
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ62123
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ62237
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ62569
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ62570
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ62571
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ62572

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