CVE-2002-1687: IBM Aix

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the diagnostics library in AIX allows local users to "cause data and instructions to be overwritten" via a long DIAGNOSTICS environment variable.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: any version

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.