CVE-2014-0930

medium

Published 2014-05-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.7

Description

The ptrace system call in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.x, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted PT_LDINFO operation.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
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`
ibm	vios	`2.2.2.0`
ibm	vios	`2.2.3.0`

References

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

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