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CVE-2026-19783 IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to cause kernel memory corruption due to…

Description

IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to cause kernel memory corruption due to insufficient validation. A crafted filesystem image can trigger an out-of-bounds kernel-stack write during directory reads, causing a system crash or potentially enabling privilege escalation.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
AIX 7.3 No fix stated
AIX 7.2 No fix stated
PowerVM VIOS 4.1 No fix stated
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