CVE-2016-8944 in AIX

Summary

IBM AIX 7.1 and 7.2 allows a local user to open a file with a specially crafted argument that would crash the system. IBM APARs: IV91488, IV91487, IV91456, IV90234.

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• Reservation: 10/25/2016
• Disclosure: 02/15/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-97013 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-20 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.4
• EPSS: 0.00051
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8944
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8944
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-8944/