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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 22, Number 5

February 3, 2020 Doug Bidwell

Another day, another dollar. Another week, another batch of PTF patches for the IBM i stack.

So here is what has gone down. There are multiple vulnerabilities in the IBM Java SDK and the IBM Java Runtime that affect the IBM i platform. Fixes for the vulnerabilities are contained in current Java PTF group for all four releases. IBM recommends that all users running unsupported versions of affected products upgrade to supported and fixed versions of affected products.

Here is the rundown of the patches this week, by release.

PTF Groups 7.4:
- HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
- SAP Support Required PTF List
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 21, Number 13

April 3, 2019 Doug Bidwell

This week in the IBM i PTF Guide, we are obsessing about security. There is a security bulletin out that explains that there are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime that affect IBM i. There is consequently a new Java Group for all three releases – IBM i 7.1, IBM i 7.2, and IBM i 7.3. See this link for further details.

There is also a separate security bulletin, CVE-2018-14647, relating to Python that affects IBM i, and this affects all three currently supported releases as well. See this link for the scoop. For Python 2.7 …
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