IBM Power Systems Firmware Buffer Overflow
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.
CVE-2026-96261
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-96261
PowerVM Hypervisor
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
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- Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1060.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1060.00.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1060.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:a:ibm:powervm_hypervisor:fw1060.81.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor": "IBM",
"product": "PowerVM Hypervisor",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "FW1060.00",
"versionType": "semver",
"lessThanOrEqual": "FW1060.81"
}
]
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-96261
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Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #17168 · Revision 1
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