CVE-2016-5985

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
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: 2017-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect) AIX client is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when Journal-Based Backup is enabled. A local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a system crash.

Affected products

IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager: through 7.1.6.2; through 6.4.3.3; through 6.3.2.5; through 6.1; through 6.2; through 5.5

References

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993695
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94808
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993695
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94808

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