CVE-2011-3982
2.1 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
The Fibre Channel driver for QLogic adapters in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1 does not properly handle DMA resource limitations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via vectors that generate a large amount of DMA I/O, related to a deadlock in timer processing across CPUs.
Affected configurations
References
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ94222
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ94383
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ94593
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ94675
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IZ96761
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0275
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0691
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67292
Related
2.1 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%