CVE-2025-0986 – IBM PowerVM Hypervisor Data Loss via Gzip Compression

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-0986 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Mar. 28, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description IBM PowerVM Hypervisor FW1050.00 through FW1050.30 and FW1060.00 through FW1060.20 could allow a local user, under certain Linux processor combability mode configurations, to cause undetected data loss or errors when performing gzip compression using HW acceleration.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
    Added CWE CWE-409
    Added Reference https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7229349
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