CVE-2005-2238: IBM Aix

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ftpd in IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (port exhaustion and memory consumption) by using all ephemeral ports.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only

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