CVE-2025-0986 (GCVE-0-2025-0986)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-28 13:21
Modified
2025-09-01 01:00
Severity ?
4.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Summary
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.
References
psirt@us.ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7229349Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor Version: FW1050.00   ≤ FW1050.30
Version: FW1060.00   ≤ FW1060.20
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power9_system_firmware:fw1050.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power9_system_firmware:fw1050.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power9_system_firmware:fw1060.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:power9_system_firmware:fw1060.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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