VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-1896

critical
Published 2015-05-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the FastBackMount process in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack 6.1 before 6.1.11.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.0.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.1.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.7.2
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.8.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.8.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.9.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.9.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.10.0
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.10.1
ibm ibmtivoli_storage_manager_fastback6.1.11.0

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.