CVE-2012-0201: IBM Personal Communications

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

Stack-based buffer overflow in pcspref.dll in pcsws.exe in IBM Personal Communications 5.9.x before 5.9.8 and 6.0.x before 6.0.4 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long profile string in a WorkStation (aka .ws) file.

Affected products

• IBM Personal Communications: version 5.9.7.0 only; version 5.9.7.1 only; version 6.0.3.0 only

Published 2012-03-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.