CVE-2021-20546 (GCVE-0-2021-20546)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-04-26 16:30
Modified
2024-09-16 19:19
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
  • Denial of Service
Summary
IBM Spectrum Protect Client 8.1.0.0 through 8.1.11.0 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. A local attacker could overflow a buffer and cause the application to crash. IBM X-Force ID: 198934
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management Version: 8.1.0.0
Version: 8.1.11.0
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