CVE-2016-5011: IBM Power Hardware Management Console

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The parse_dos_extended function in partitions/dos.c in the libblkid library in util-linux allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted MSDOS partition table with an extended partition boot record at zero offset.

Affected products

• IBM Power Hardware Management Console: version 8.8.6.0 only
• IBM Powerkvm: version 2.1 only; version 3.1 only
• Kernel Util-Linux: up to and including 2.28
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.3 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2017-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.