CVE-2016-3044: IBM Powerkvm

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Linux kernel component in IBM PowerKVM 2.1 before 2.1.1.3-65.10 and 3.1 before 3.1.0.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS infinite loop and hang) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• IBM Powerkvm: version 2.1 only; version 2.1.0.2 only; version 2.1.1.0 only; version 2.1.1.2 only; version 2.1.1.3 only; version 3.1 only; …

Published 2016-12-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.