CVE-2016-8944: IBM Aix

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM AIX 7.1 and 7.2 allows a local user to open a file with a specially crafted argument that would crash the system. IBM APARs: IV91488, IV91487, IV91456, IV90234.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only

Published 2017-02-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.