Description
The Fibre Channel driver for QLogic adapters in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1 does not properly handle DMA resource limitations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via vectors that generate a large amount of DMA I/O, related to a deadlock in timer processing across CPUs.
Published: 2011-10-05
Score: 2.1 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-3935 The Fibre Channel driver for QLogic adapters in IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1 does not properly handle DMA resource limitations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via vectors that generate a large amount of DMA I/O, related to a deadlock in timer processing across CPUs.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:53:32.595Z

Reserved: 2011-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-3982

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Status : Modified

Published: 2011-10-05T02:56:24.787

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-3982

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