CVE-2020-4411: The Spectrum Scale 4.2.0.0 through 4.2.3.21 and 5.0.0.0 through 5.0.4.3 file system component is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in its kernel…

PriorityP422high7.1CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUINSCCNINAH

EPSS

0.32%

24.0th percentile

The Spectrum Scale 4.2.0.0 through 4.2.3.21 and 5.0.0.0 through 5.0.4.3 file system component is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in its kernel module that could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition on the affected system. To exploit this vulnerability, a local attacker could invoke a subset of ioctls on the Spectrum Scale device with non-valid arguments. This could allow the attacker to crash the kernel. IBM X-Force ID: 179986.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ibm	spectrum_scale	—	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	—	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	—	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	—	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	4.2.0.0 – 4.2.3.21	—
ibm	spectrum_scale	5.0.0.0 – 5.0.4.3	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv3.07.1HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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