CVE-2021-29795

MEDIUM

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW860, FW930, FW940, FW950 - Denial of Service via Hypervisor Call Sequence

Title source: llm

Description

IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW860, FW930, FW940, and FW950 could allow a local user to create a specially crafted sequence of hypervisor calls from a partition that could crash the system. IBM X-Force ID: 203557.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6490877

VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/203557

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0

EPSS 0.0004

EPSS Percentile 12.3%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-74

Status published

Products (4)

ibm/powervm_hypervisor fw860

ibm/powervm_hypervisor fw930

ibm/powervm_hypervisor fw940

ibm/powervm_hypervisor fw950

Published Sep 21, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026