CVE-2012-4817: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The NFSv4 client implementation in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1, and VIOS before 2.2.1.4-FP-25 SP-02, does not properly handle GID values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.3 only; version 6.1 only; version 7.1 only
• IBM Vios: version 1.4.1.2 only; version 1.5.1.1 only; version 1.5.2.1 only; version 1.5.2.6 only; version 2.1.0.0 only; version 2.1.2.10 only; …

Published 2012-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.