Security Bulletin: The GPFS pattern provided with IBM PureApplication System is affected by a security vulnerability. (CVE-2016-0392)

Summary A security vulnerability has been identified in all levels of IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM GPFS that could allow a local attacker to inject commands into setuid file parameters and execute commands as root. IBM PureApplication System provides a GPFS pattern and addressed the applicable CVE...

CVE-2016-2984

CVE-2016-2984 affects IBM Spectrum Scale/GPFS: local users can gain root privileges via crafted command-line parameters to a setuid binary in /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin. Affected versions include GPFS 3.5.x before 3.5.0.32, GPFS 4.1.x before 4.1.1.8, Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.x before 4.1.1.8, and 4.2.x before...