CVE-2010-1124: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

bos.rte.libc 5.3.9.4 on IBM AIX 5.3 does not properly support reading a certain address field after a successful getaddrinfo function call, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by IBM DB2 crashes on "systems with databases cataloged with alternate servers using IP addresses."

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.3 only; version 5.3.0 only

Published 2010-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.