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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 5, 2011· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2011-3982

CVE-2011-3982

Description

The Fibre Channel driver for QLogic adapters in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1 does not properly handle DMA resource limitations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via vectors that generate a large amount of DMA I/O, related to a deadlock in timer processing across CPUs.

Affected products

3
  • IBM/Aix3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 6.1, 7.1

Patches

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