CVE-2012-4817

medium

Published 2012-09-14 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

The NFSv4 client implementation in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1, and VIOS before 2.2.1.4-FP-25 SP-02, does not properly handle GID values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service 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

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	vios	`1.4.1.2`
ibm	vios	`1.5.1.1`
ibm	vios	`1.5.2.1`
ibm	vios	`1.5.2.6`
ibm	vios	`2.1.0.0`
ibm	vios	`2.1.2.10`
ibm	vios	`2.1.2.12`
ibm	vios	`2.1.2.13`
ibm	vios	`2.1.3.10`
ibm	vios	`2.2.0.10`
ibm	vios	`2.2.0.11`
ibm	vios	`2.2.0.12`
ibm	vios	`2.2.0.13`
ibm	vios	`2.2.1.0`
ibm	vios	`2.2.1.1`
ibm	vios	`2.2.1.3`
ibm	vios	`2.2.1.4`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.