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CVE-2016-5985

The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM Spectrum Protect) AIX client is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when Journal-Based Backup is enabled.…

High7.8EPSS 0.42%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
ibm

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.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By ibm

  2. · 7 months later

    Published

  3. · 8 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2016-5985, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.0High7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.42% · top 63% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

Affected products

  • IBM Corporation · Tivoli Storage Manager

    • affected 5.3.5.3
    • affected 5.4.1.2
    • affected 4.2
    • affected 4.2.1
    • affected 5.1.8
    • affected 5.2.5.1
    • affected 5.2.7
    • affected 5.2.8
    • affected 5.2.9
    • affected 5.3.0
    • affected 5.3.1
    • affected 5.3.2
    • affected 5.3.3
    • affected 5.4.4.0
    • affected 5.4.2.4
    • affected 5.4.2.3
    • affected 5.4.2.2
    • affected 5.3.6.9
    • affected 5.3.6.2
    • affected 5.3.6.1
    • affected 5.3.4
    • affected 5.2.5.3
    • affected 5.2.5.2
    • affected 5.2.4
    • affected 5.3.5.1
    • affected 5.3.2.4
    • affected 6.0
    • affected 5.1.0
    • affected 5.1.1
    • affected 5.1.10
    • affected 5.1.5
    • affected 5.1.6
    • affected 5.1.7
    • affected 5.1.9
    • affected 5.2.0
    • affected 5.2.1
    • affected 4.2.2
    • affected 4.2.3
    • affected 4.2.4
    • affected 5.2.2
    • and 14 more

References (2)

Sources

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