CVE-2022-47990

IBM AIX denial of service

State: Published
Severity: 6.2 Medium
Published: Jan 18, 2023
Updated: Apr 3, 2025
Reserved: Dec 28, 2022

Description

IBM AIX 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and VIOS , 3.1 could allow a non-privileged local user to exploit a vulnerability in X11 to cause a buffer overflow that could result in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. IBM X-Force ID: 243556.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.2 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	ibm

Weaknesses

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
AIXIBM	7.1, 7.2, 7.3, VIOS 3.1Affected

References

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6855827vendor-advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/243556vdb-entry

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