Serious New IBM i Vulns Exposed by Silent Signal – More On the Way

July 24, 2023 Alex Woodie

Two new vulnerabilities in core components of the IBM i operating system were disclosed by IBM last week, including one that impacts Performance Tools and another in Facsimile Support for i. Both vulnerabilities were discovered by Silent Signal, the Hungarian firm that discovered the recent DDM vulnerability, and both are considered high risk flaws that should be patched immediately.

More security flaws exist in IBM i that will be exposed in the months to come, the company says.

The first new flaw, CVE-2023-30988, pertains to a local privilege escalation vulnerability discovered in Facsimile Support for i, a native IBM …