The Spectrum Scale 4.2.0.0 up to and including 4.2.3.21 and 5.0.0.0 up to and including 5.0.4.3 file system component is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in its kernel module that could allow an malicious user 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 malicious user to crash the kernel. IBM X-Force ID: 179986.
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