CVE-2012-2179: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libodm.a in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.3 only; version 6.1 only; version 7.1 only

Published 2012-06-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.