CVE-2005-3504: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in swcons in IBM AIX 5.2, when debug malloc is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a core dump and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.2 only; version 5.2.2 only; version 5.2_l only

Published 2005-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.