CVE-2007-4004: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the ftp client in IBM AIX 5.3 SP6 and 5.2.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger the overflow in a gets function call. NOTE: the client is setuid root on AIX, so this issue crosses privilege boundaries.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.2.0 only; version 5.3 only

Published 2007-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.