High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Aug 19, 2026
CVE-2026-16838
CVE-2026-16838
Description
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to overwrite critical files and obtain sensitive information due to a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition.
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Affected products
2- Range: 4.1
Patches
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