CVE-2005-3396: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the chcons (chcon) command in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3, when DEBUG MALLOC is enabled, might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long command line argument.

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 2005-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.