CVE-2010-1124

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

bos.rte.libc 5.3.9.4 on IBM AIX 5.3 does not properly support reading a certain address field after a successful getaddrinfo function call, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by IBM DB2 crashes on "systems with databases cataloged with alternate servers using IP addresses."

Affected products

IBM AIX: 5.3, 5.3.0

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ66710
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38964
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ66710
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38964

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