CVE-2015-7403

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Published 2016-01-02 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

4.0

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.0

Description

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.x before 4.1.1.3 and General Parallel File System (GPFS) 3.5.x before 3.5.0.29 and 4.1.x through 4.1.0.8 on AIX allow local users to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer dereference and node crash) via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

40%

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	general_parallel_file_system	`3.5`
ibm	spectrum_scale	`4.1.1.0`
ibm	spectrum_scale	`4.1.1.1`
ibm	spectrum_scale	`4.1.1.2`

References

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

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