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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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  • OpenSSL Flaw No ‘Heartbleed,’ But Other New Vulns Detected

    November 2, 2022 Alex Woodie

    The cybersecurity world has been sitting on pins and needles for the past 48 hours, ever since news of a potentially devastating new flaw in OpenSSL started to leak out early Monday morning. That flaw turned out to be not as bad as initially feared, but that shouldn’t stop IBM i shops from patching other recent flaws, including some pretty serious ones in WebSphere Liberty, Java, the CCA, and Zlib.

    News started to emerge earlier this week of a critical OpenSSL flaw that required the utmost attention. The flaw could be a concern for just about everybody, including IBM, …

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  • IBM Unveils Fall 2022 Tech Refreshes for IBM i

    October 12, 2022 Alex Woodie

    IBM yesterday announced Technology Refreshes for its two most current IBM i operating systems, including 7.5 and 7.4. Security continues to be a big driver of new functionality with 7.5 TR1 and 7.4 TR7. But the fall TRs bring a bevy of enhancements across all areas, including the database, IBM i services, open source, application development, and analytics, among others.

    Security has been the number one concern for CIOs for a few years now, and IBM has responded with a number of new features in IBM i. Some of the new security features exist in IBM i Navigator, the GUI …

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  • More IBM i Security Flaws Revealed

    July 13, 2022 Alex Woodie

    The summer slowdown might have started in your particular business, but things are just getting warmed up IBM security researchers, who disclosed a series of new vulnerabilities across IBM i products over the past couple of weeks, including IBM i Merlin, WAS Liberty, OpenSSL, the Digital Certificate Manager, and Zlib.

    On June 27, IBM disclosed that the collection of open source and proprietary tools and technology it’s brought together as IBM i Modernization Engine for Lifecycle Integration (Merlin) suffers from no fewer than 16 separate security flaws.

    Among the most series of these flaws is a CVE-2022-22965, a data binding …

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