Doug Bidwell
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 6
February 6, 2023 Doug Bidwell
American airspace had a new security vulnerability last week in the form of a Chinese balloon loaded with who knows what, and here are the new security vulnerabilities you need to worry about for the IBM i platform. There are three new ones that you need to shoot down over the ocean, just like U.S. Air Force did with that “surveillance” balloon after it traversed the heartland of the country from Montana to South Carolina.
First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-23477), which you can find out more about …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 5
January 30, 2023 Doug Bidwell
Here’s a question for you: Are you using encryption to download software fixes from IBM? You may not know, and worse yet, you may not know how to figure that out. This is important because as we warned you last fall, IBM’s Electronic Fix Distribution and Fix Central systems will end support for unencrypted fix downloads starting on February 15 of this year.
That gives you two weeks and a day to figure it out. And this document from IBM helps you figure it out and tells you what to do.
Aside from this, it has been pretty quiet in …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 4
January 23, 2023 Doug Bidwell
Here are some reminders to start off the IBM i PTF Guide this week.
First, there are new releases for Access Client Solutions and the ODBC database driver. (See ACS_NAV in the Guide for the links.) The funny bit – funny odd, not funny hilarious – is that version 26 of ACS did not allow companies to create a database source for ODBC, which is serious shortcoming. Now, there is a new version 27 that will let you do it. Here is the updated software:
Description Version IBM i Access Client Solutions (1.1.9.1) 1.1.9.1 ACS Windows App Pkg English (64bit)
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 3
January 16, 2023 Doug Bidwell
Last week was pretty quiet in PTF Land, as many of you might have expected. And considering that we were dealing with the Log4J vulnerability nonsense this time last year, we will take that as a bonus and just have Volume 24, Number 2, of the IBM i PTF Guide as a placeholder of sorts. This week is a bit more interesting, but nothing too big as yet. We have another 49 weeks in the year, so no hurry.
Just a reminder to read and heed: IBM Electronic Fix Distribution / IBM Fix Central systems will end support for unencrypted …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 1
January 11, 2023 Doug Bidwell
The New Year is always marked with celebration, but this year we also celebrate 25 years of the PTF Guide! The best way I can think of for you to celebrate is to make sure you are up to date on your PTF work.
We start off 2023 with a series of Security Bulletins. First up, IBM Navigator for i is vulnerable to log file access, obtaining file attributes, and SQL Injection attacks due to multiple vulnerabilities. Get the details HERE.
IBM i Release 5770DG1 IBM HTTP Server for i Group PTF 7.5 SF99952 - 05 7.4 SF99662 -
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 50
December 12, 2022 Doug Bidwell
It is another week of interesting security vulnerabilities in the IBM i world, so brace yourself for some research and patching. There are a slew of vulnerabilities that affect the Hardware Management Console for Power Systems, which means any of you IBM i shops that are using relatively large Power machines. There are five new ones, above and beyond the ones we have covered in recent weeks.
First, there is Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Bind (CVE-2021-25219) affects Power HMC, which you can read about here.
Affected Product(s) Version(s) HMC V10.1.1010.0 V10.1.1010.0 and later HMC V9.2.950.0 V9.2.950.0 and later Product
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 49
December 7, 2022 Doug Bidwell
It is another one of those weeks when there are a slew of security vulnerabilities to attend to. Four that we know of, to be precise.
First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service due to Google protobuf-java (CVE-2022-3171, CVE-2022-3509), which you can read more about at this link. This vulnerability affects IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty versions 21.0.0.2 through 22.0.0.12.
Second, there is Security Bulletin: ISC BIND on IBM i is vulnerable to denial of service due to memory leaks and a flaw in resolver code (CVE-2022-2795, CVE-2022-38177, CVE-2022-38178), …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 47
November 28, 2022 Doug Bidwell
It is a busy, busy week for the IBM i PTF Guide, folks. So get some coffee. There are a bunch of security vulnerabilities that you need to take a look at, and there are also some recommended fixes that are not included in either the PTF groups or the cumulative PTF updates.
First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM Transform Services for IBM i is vulnerable to denial of service, buffer overflow, and allowing attacker to obtain sensitive information due to multiple vulnerabilities, which you can read more about at this link. The fixes for this vulnerability can …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 46
November 14, 2022 Doug Bidwell
This week, you will find much to your surprise that Access Client Solutions 1.1.9.1, which was promised for delivery on December 2 back at the NAViGATE 2022 COMMON conference in St Louis, is out a few weeks early. We saw it available and downloaded it on November 11, which means it is a few weeks early.
ACS 1.1.9.1 follows on the heels of the 1.1.9.0 release that came out in April 2022, with mitigations for the Log4j security vulnerabilities. We don’t know the full set of enhancements yet, but this IBM i – ACS Updates page at Big Blue …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 45
November 7, 2022 Doug Bidwell
Hello good people of IBM i Land. There’s a security vulnerability you need to take a look at to see if it affects your system, and a whole bunch of PTF patches for all kinds of things. Let’s start with the vulnerability, which you can see in Security Bulletin: Zlib for IBM i is vulnerable to a buffer overflow issue during inflate (CVE-2022-37434) and which you can find out more about here.
This is not the same vulnerability in Zlib for IBM i that we told you about last week, so don’t think we are a skipping record here. …
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