CVE-2002-1687 — Buffer overflow in the diagnostics library in AIX allows local users to "cause data and instructions to be overwritten" via a long DIAGNOSTICS environment variable

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Buffer overflow in the diagnostics library in AIX allows local users to "cause data and instructions to be overwritten" via a long DIAGNOSTICS environment variable

Published Jun 21, 2005

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.29%

Description

Buffer overflow in the diagnostics library in AIX allows local users to "cause data and instructions to be overwritten" via a long DIAGNOSTICS environment variable.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.29% 0.00291

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00291

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.29% (0.00291)	19.56th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.29% (0.00291)	20.51th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00060)	15.97th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2002-q1/0005.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/aix/2002-q1/0005.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 21, 2005

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Jun 21, 2005

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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