CVE-2006-5855: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 26.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) before 5.2.9 and 5.3.x before 5.3.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in (1) the language field at logon that begins with a 0x18 byte, (2) two unspecified parameters to the SmExecuteWdsfSession function, and (3) the contact field in an open registration message.

Affected products

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager: version 5.2.7 only; version 5.2.8 only; version 5.3.0 only; version 5.3.1 only; version 5.3.2 only; version 5.3.3 only

Published 2006-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.