VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-3755

medium
Published 2010-10-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The _DAS_ReadBlockReply function in FastBackServer.exe in the Server in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) FastBack 5.5.0.0 through 5.5.6.0 and 6.1.0.0 through 6.1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via data in a TCP packet. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2010-3060.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback5.5.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback5.5.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback5.5.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback5.5.2.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback5.5.3.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback5.5.4.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback5.5.5.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback5.5.6.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.0.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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

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