CVE-2010-4604

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Publication date:

29/12/2010

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the GeneratePassword function in dsmtca (aka the Trusted Communications Agent or TCA) in the backup-archive client in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 5.3.x before 5.3.6.10, 5.4.x before 5.4.3.4, 5.5.x before 5.5.2.10, and 6.1.x before 6.1.3.1 on Unix and Linux allows local users to gain privileges by specifying a long LANG environment variable, and then sending a request over a pipe.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager::::::::	5.3.0 (including)	5.3.6.7 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager::::::::	5.4.0 (including)	5.4.3.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager::::::::	5.5.0 (including)	5.5.2.7 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager::::::::	6.1.0 (including)	6.1.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:::::::*

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CVE-2010-4604

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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