CVE-2009-3853: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 36.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the client acceptor daemon (CAD) scheduler in the client in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 5.3 before 5.3.6.7, 5.4 before 5.4.3, 5.5 before 5.5.2.2, and 6.1 before 6.1.0.2, and TSM Express 5.3.3.0 through 5.3.6.6, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted data in a TCP packet.

Affected products

• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager: version 5.2.5.3 only; version 5.3 only; version 5.3.0 only; version 5.3.1 only; version 5.3.2 only; version 5.3.2.4 only; …

Published 2009-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.