CVE-2014-0930: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ptrace system call in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.x, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted PT_LDINFO operation.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.3 only; version 6.1 only; version 7.1 only
• IBM Vios: version 2.2.0.10 only; version 2.2.0.11 only; version 2.2.0.12 only; version 2.2.0.13 only; version 2.2.1.0 only; version 2.2.1.1 only; …

Published 2014-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.