CVE-2026-16897
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service due to an out-of-bounds write.
Scoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS base score
- 4.4
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.11%
- CWE
- CWE-369
- Published
- 2026-08-19
- Last modified
- 2026-08-20
Affected products
- IBM AIX
- IBM AIX
- IBM PowerVM VIOS
Weakness type
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