Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 31, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-4492
CVE-2020-4492
Description
IBM Spectrum Scale V5.0.0.0 through V5.0.4.3 and V4.2.0.0 through V4.2.3.21 could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service crashing the kernel by sending a subset of ioctls on the device with invalid arguments. IBM X-Force ID: 181992.
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Affected products
3V5.0.0.0 through V5.0.4.3 and V4.2.0.0 through V4.2.3.21+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: V5.0.0.0 through V5.0.4.3 and V4.2.0.0 through V4.2.3.21
- (no CPE)range: 4.2.0.0
- cpe:2.3:a:ibm:spectrum_scale:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=4.2.0.0,<=4.2.3.21
Patches
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References
2- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/181992nvdVDB EntryVendor Advisory
- www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6324249nvdVendor Advisory
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