CVE-2016-2946 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2946?

CVE-2016-2946 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Dec 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ax Shared Libraries in the Agent in IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) 6.2.2 before FP9, 6.2.3 before FP5, and 6.3.0 before FP2 on Linux and UNIX allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2946?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Tivoli Monitoring.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2946?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-2946 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-2946 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2946 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2015-7411 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.9
• CVE-2025-3357 IBM Tivoli Monitoring code execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-1789 Code injection in Tivoli Monitoring V6 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-3356 IBM Tivoli Monitoring is vulnerable to unauthenticated file read and write operations High 8.6
• CVE-2015-5003 Command injection in n/a High 8.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-85m4-wpg4-w8mj.