CVE-2003-0696: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The getipnodebyname() API in AIX 5.1 and 5.2 does not properly close sockets, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion).

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only

Published 2004-01-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.