CVE-2016-2946

high

Published 2016-12-01 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ax Shared Libraries in the Agent in IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) 6.2.2 before FP9, 6.2.3 before FP5, and 6.3.0 before FP2 on Linux and UNIX allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
linux-kernel	-	not-affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.2.2`
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.2.2.1`
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.2.2.2`
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.2.2.3`
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.2.2.4`
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.2.2.5`
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.2.2.6`
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.2.2.7`
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.2.2.8`
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.2.2.9`
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.2.3`
ibm	tivoli_monitoring	`6.3.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.