CVE-2008-4801

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

31/10/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Data Protection for SQL CAD service (aka dsmcat.exe) in the Client Acceptor Daemon (CAD) and the scheduler in the Backup-Archive client 5.1.0.0 through 5.1.8.1, 5.2.0.0 through 5.2.5.2, 5.3.0.0 through 5.3.6.1, 5.4.0.0 through 5.4.2.2, and 5.5.0.0 through 5.5.0.91 in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM); and the Backup-Archive client in TSM Express; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending a large amount of crafted data to a TCP port.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0

10.00

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_client::::::::	5.1 (including)	5.1.8.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_client::::::::	5.2 (including)	5.2.5.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_client::::::::	5.3 (including)	5.3.6.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_client::::::::	5.4 (including)	5.4.2.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_client::::::::	5.5.0.0 (including)	5.5.0.91 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_storage_manager_express::::::::

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CVE-2008-4801

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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