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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2006-5855 in the critical feed json

Multiple buffer overflows in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) before 5.2.9 and 5.3.x before 5.3.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial…

published 2006-12-06 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-5839

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
28.2%
EPSS 28.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) before 5.2.9 and 5.3.x before 5.3.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in (1) the language field at logon that begins with a 0x18 byte, (2) two unspecified parameters to the SmExecuteWdsfSession function, and (3) the contact field in an open registration message.

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

28.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.