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CVE-2016-5985
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-02-01T20:59:01.503 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:50:20.290

Summary

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 — tivoli_storage_manager

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References

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