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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 26, Number 26

    July 10, 2024 Doug Bidwell

    After a pretty busy few weeks, you are getting a bit of a break, with only one security vulnerability this week. You can read about it in Security Bulletin: IBM Managed System Services for i and IBM System Management for i are vulnerable to a local user gaining elevated privilege due to unqualified library calls (CVE-2024-38330), with details at this link.

    The IBM i PTF numbers for 5770-MG1 and 5770-SM1 contain the fixes for the vulnerability, as follows:

    IBM i Release	5770-MG1	PTF Number
    7.4			SJ01170
    7.3			SJ01174
    7.2			SJ01175
    	5770-SM1	PTF Number
    7.4			SJ01325
    7.3			SJ01324
    7.2			SJ01323
    
    …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 43

    October 23, 2023 Doug Bidwell

    Busy, busy, busy. That is what the good people at IBM Rochester have been in the past week, with a slew of PTFs for the currently supported releases – that is IBM i 7.5 and IBM i 7.4 that are on standard support and IBM i 7.3 that just went into extended support at the end of September, a trio of security vulnerabilities in the IBM i stack, and two group PTFs for the IBM i 7.2 release that is supposed to be kaput.

    Let’s start with the security vulnerabilities.

    First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM i is vulnerable to …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 34

    August 21, 2023 Doug Bidwell

    It is still summer, and the big news again this week in PTF Land is a security vulnerability. This time the hole is in the WebSphere Liberty middleware from Big Blue. See Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service (CVE-2023-38737), which you can find out more about at this link. IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty versions 22.0.0.13 through 23.0.0.7 are affected.

    Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

    PTF Groups 7.5:

    • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
    • Security
    • Java
    • IBM HTTP Server for i
    • SAP support
    …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 30

    July 25, 2022 Doug Bidwell

    Just to keep you on your toes, we have to catch you up on a recent Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (CVE-2022-22477), which you can find out more about here. IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0 and IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 are both affected by this security vulnerability. This vulnerability follows five vulnerabilities in last week’s issue.

    Please note that we will be moving V7R1M0 from weekly update to archive. Anything new we are informed of that impacts IBM i 7.1, we will post here in the What’s NEW! Section at the top …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 10

    March 7, 2022 Doug Bidwell

    This week, there are a bunch of security bulletins about yet more new vulnerabilities, this time in the HTTP Server and the Samba Windows file server clone that are embedded in the IBM i operating system. There is also a partial mitigation against Log4j/Log4Shell vulnerabilities, and you may get a laugh or a cry out of this one. Maybe both. OK, probably both. Let’s go through them all.

    First, there is Security Bulletin: IBM HTTP Server (powered by Apache) for i is vulnerable to CVE-2021-44224, which you can read about here at this link. With this vulnerability, the Apache …

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  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 40

    October 6, 2021 Doug Bidwell

    The security vulnerabilities have calmed down for a week, and maybe the world was just being kind so we could all attend POWERUp 2021, which runs from Monday to Thursday this week and is only available online. Visit the COMMON user group website to find out the particulars.

    Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level:

    PTF Groups 7.4:

    • IBM HTTP Server for i
    • MQ for IBM i – v9.0.0/v9.1.0/V9.2.0
    • Db2 Web Query for i V2.3.0

    PTF Groups 7.3:

    • IBM HTTP Server for i
    • MQ for IBM i – v9.0.0/v9.1.0/V9.2.0
    • Db2 Web Query for i V2.3.0
    …

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