CVE-2008-5387: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in autoconf6 in IBM AIX 6.1.0 through 6.1.2, when Role-Based Access Control is enabled, allows local users with aix.network.config.tcpip authorization to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 6.1 only; version 6.1.1 only; version 6.1.2 only

Published 2008-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.