Security Bulletin: IBM Spectrum Scale V4.1.1, IBM GPFS V4.1, and IBM V3.5 for AIX are affected by a security vulnerability (CVE-2015-7403)

Summary A security vulnerability has been identified in the current levels of IBM Spectrum Scale V4.1.1, IBM GPFS V4.1 and V3.5 that could allow a local attacker to cause the node they are on to crash. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-7403 DESCRIPTION: IBM General Parallel File System is...

Security Bulletin: The GPFS pattern provided with IBM PureApplication System is affected by a security vulnerability. (CVE-2015-7403)

Summary A security vulnerability has been identified in the current levels of IBM Spectrum Scale V4.1.1, IBM GPFS V4.1 and V3.5 that could allow a local attacker to cause the node they are on to crash. IBM PureApplication System provides a GPFS pattern and addressed the applicable CVE...

CVE-2015-7403

CVE-2015-7403 affects IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) on AIX, with vulnerable components including Spectrum Scale 4.1.x (before 4.1.1.3) and GPFS 3.5.x and 4.1.x (before 4.1.0.8/3.5.0.29). Root cause described as a local denial-of-service due to a user pointer dereference that can crash the node. Affec...