CVE-2016-5985

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.004 · 36 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.42% (36th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

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63 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v3.07.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.07.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USprimary

affected products (63)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.1.10enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.2.9enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.5.1.0enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.5.7enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.4.2.2enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.1.6enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 7.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.2.5.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.4.4.0enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 4.2.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 6.4enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.1.9enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.2.4enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.5.1.6enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.3.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.1.8enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 4.2enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.3.6.9enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 5.2.1enisa_euvdEU
IBM Corporation Tivoli Storage Manager≤ 4.2.2enisa_euvdEU

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cnnvd enisa_euvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-02-01modified 2026-06-17

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