CVE-2005-2233: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in multiple "p" commands in IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long command line arguments to (1) penable or other hard-linked files including (2) pdisable, (3) pstart, (4) phold, (5) pdelay, or (6) pshare.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.1 only; version 5.1l only; version 5.2 only; version 5.2.2 only; version 5.2_l only; version 5.3 only; …

Published 2005-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.