IBM AIX: x11_advisory (CVE-2022-47990): Vulnerability in x11 affects AIX

IBM AIX: x11_advisory (CVE-2022-47990): Vulnerability in x11 affects AIX

Severity

7

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

01/17/2023

Created

01/19/2023

Added

01/18/2023

Modified

01/28/2025

Description

IBM AIX 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and VIOS , 3.1 could allow a non-privileged local user to exploit a vulnerability in X11 to cause a buffer overflow that could result in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. IBM X-Force ID: 243556.

Solution(s)

• ibm-aix-x11_advisory

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2022-47990
• CVE - 2022-47990
• https://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/x11_advisory.asc