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CVE-2009-3699: IBM Vios: Buffer overflow

CVE-2009-3699 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects IBM Vios. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Stack-based buffer overflow in libcsa.a (aka the calendar daemon library) in IBM AIX 5.x through 5.3.10 and 6.x through 6.1.3, and VIOS 2.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long XDR string in the first argument to procedure 21 of rpc.cmsd.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Underlying weakness

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.

Affected products

IBM Vios: up to and including 2.1.0; 1.4; 1.5.0; 1.5.1; 1.5.2
IBM AIX: 5; 5.1; 5.1.0.10; 5.1l; 5.2; 5.2.0; 5.2.0.50; 5.2.0.54; 5.2.2; 5.2_l; 5.3; 5.3 sp6