CVE-2026-16897mediumCWE-369

CVE-2026-16897: medium-severity vulnerability in IBM AIX

Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX and PowerVM VIOS

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No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 4.4epss 0.1%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
IBM · AIXIBM · PowerVM VIOS
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