High severity8.4NVD Advisory· Published Aug 20, 2026
CVE-2026-18842
CVE-2026-18842
Description
IBM AIX 7.2, and 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges due to an out-of-bounds write.
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