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CVE-2017-1304

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

IBM has identified a vulnerability with IBM Spectrum Scale/GPFS utilized on the Elastic Storage Server (ESS)/GPFS Storage Server (GSS) during testing of an unsupported configuration, where users applications are running on an active ESS I/O server node and utilize direct I/O to perform a read or a write to a Spectrum Scale file. This vulnerability may result in the use of an incorrect memory address, leading to a Spectrum Scale/GPFS daemon failure with a Signal 11, and possibly leading to denial of service or undetected data corruption. IBM X-Force ID: 125458.

Affected products

• IBM Elastic Storage Server: 2.0.0, 2.5.0, 2.5.5, 3.0.0, 3.0.5, 3.5.0 (+7)

References

• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1010230
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99274
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125458
• http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1010230
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99274
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125458

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