Vulnerability CVE-2016-6115

Vulnerability CVE-2016-6115

Published: 2017-02-01 Modified: 2017-02-02

Description:

IBM General Parallel File System is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. A remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges or cause the server to crash.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
9/10	10/10	8/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Low	Single time
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Complete	Complete	Complete

Affected software
IBM -> Spectrum scale
IBM -> General parallel file system

References:

http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1009639

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95272

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