CVE-2007-4799: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The perfstat kernel extension in bos.perf.perfstat in AIX 5.3 does not verify privileges when processing a SET call, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang or crash) via unspecified SET operations.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.3 only

Published 2007-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.