CVE-2016-6115: IBM General Parallel File System

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM General Parallel File System is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. A remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges or cause the server to crash.

Affected products

• IBM General Parallel File System: version 4.1.0.0 only; version 4.1.0.1 only; version 4.1.0.2 only; version 4.1.0.3 only; version 4.1.0.4 only; version 4.1.0.5 only; …
• IBM Spectrum Scale: version 4.1.0.0 only; version 4.1.1.0 only; version 4.1.1.1 only; version 4.1.1.2 only; version 4.1.1.3 only; version 4.1.1.4 only; …

Published 2017-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.