Vulnerability in IBM Aix

CVE-2011-3982

The Fibre Channel driver for QLogic adapters in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1 does not properly handle DMA resource limitations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via vectors that generate a large amount of DMA I/O, related to a deadlock in timer processing across CPUs.

EPSS: 0.003 (25.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Ibm Aix — versions 6.1, 7.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References