CVE-2008-1594

2008-03-3123:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

The kernel in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 does not properly handle resizing JFS2 filesystems on concurrent volume groups spread across multiple nodes, which allows local users of one node to cause a denial of service (remote node crash) by using chfs or lreducelv to reduce a filesystem’s size.

References

securitytracker.com/id?1019606

www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ04946

www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ04953

www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ05246

www.securityfocus.com/bid/28467

www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0865

www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4153

www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4154

www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4155

oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5434