VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6115

high
Published 2017-02-01 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.2

Description

IBM General Parallel File System is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. A remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges or cause the server to crash.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
81%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system4.1.0.0
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system4.1.0.1
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system4.1.0.2
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system4.1.0.3
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system4.1.0.4
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system4.1.0.5
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system4.1.0.6
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system4.1.0.7
ibm ibmgeneral_parallel_file_system4.1.0.8
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.0.0
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.0
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.1
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.2
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.3
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.4
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.5
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.6
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.7
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.8
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.9
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.1.1.10
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.2.0.0
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.2.0.1
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.2.0.2
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.2.0.3
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.2.1
ibm ibmspectrum_scale4.2.2.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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