IBM Spectrum Protect Servers 7.1 and 8.1 and Storage Agents are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by servers and storage agents in response to specifically crafted communication exchanges. By sending an overly long request, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with instance id privileges or cause the server or storage agent to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 157510.

Related CVEs

CVE-2019-4087

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-pwxh-5c57-phq7

Published

May 24, 2022 4:49 PM

Last Modified

December 9, 2022 6:30 PM

CVSS Score

9.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: July 2, 2025 6:26 AM

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