Security Bulletin: The Elastic Storage Server and the GPFS Storage Server are affected by a vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale (CVE-2016-6115)

Summary There is a vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale packaged with the Elastic Storage Server and the GPFS Storage Server. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-6115 DESCRIPTION: IBM General Parallel File System is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. A remote authenticated attacker could overflow ...

CVE-2016-6115

CVE-2016-6115 affects IBM GPFS/Spectrum Scale (e.g., Elastic Storage Server and GPFS Storage Server). The vulnerability is a buffer overflow in IBM General Parallel File System that could be triggered by a remote authenticated attacker, allowing arbitrary code execution with root privileges or ca...