CVE-2002-1689: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unknown vulnerability in the login program on AIX before 4.0 could allow remote users to specify 100 or more environment variables when logging on, which exceeds the length of a certain string, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 3.2.5 only

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