CVE-2008-0588: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the utape program in devices.scsi.tape.diag in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only

Published 2008-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.