VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-1304

medium
Published 2017-06-21 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.2

Description

IBM has identified a vulnerability with IBM Spectrum Scale/GPFS utilized on the Elastic Storage Server (ESS)/GPFS Storage Server (GSS) during testing of an unsupported configuration, where users applications are running on an active ESS I/O server node and utilize direct I/O to perform a read or a write to a Spectrum Scale file. This vulnerability may result in the use of an incorrect memory address, leading to a Spectrum Scale/GPFS daemon failure with a Signal 11, and possibly leading to denial of service or undetected data corruption. IBM X-Force ID: 125458.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
62%
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 ibmelastic_storage_server2.0.0
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server2.5.0
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server2.5.5
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server3.0.0
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server3.0.5
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server3.5.0
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server3.5.6
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server4.0.0
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server4.0.6
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server4.5.0
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server4.6.0
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server5.0.0
ibm ibmelastic_storage_server5.0.1

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.