CVE-2025-0986
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor data manipulation
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.5 Medium
- Published
- Mar 28, 2025
- Updated
- Sep 1, 2025
- Reserved
- Feb 3, 2025
Description
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1050.00 through FW1050.30 and FW1060.00 through FW1060.20 could allow a local user, under certain Linux processor combability mode configurations, to cause undetected data loss or errors when performing gzip compression using HW acceleration.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L | ibm |
Weaknesses
- CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
PowerVM HypervisorIBM |
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References
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7229349vendor-advisorypatch
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