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High · 7.3 CVE-2026-96261 EUVD-2026-97871GHSA-4mp3-cxqr-qxhw

IBM Power Systems Firmware Buffer Overflow

Published Oct 12, 2026 · Updated Oct 12, 2026 · Assigned by ibm

Description

IBM Power Systems Firmware FW1060.00 through FW1060.81 is affected by a vulnerability in host firmware configuration parsing. An attacker with authenticated service-level access to the service processor can write specially crafted configuration data, causing the host firmware boot stack to crash with possible memory corruption during system initialisation, resulting in an integrity and availability impact to the managed system.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1060.00 – ≤ FW1060.81 —

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