CVE-2009-2434: IBM Aix

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

Buffer overflow in the syscall implementation in IBM AIX 5.3 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.3 only

Published 2009-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.