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CVE-2010-1124

High
7.8/10

Summary

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."

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published