IBM Updates
1742Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
12 October, 2021
● Medium
2021-3657
All
Description:
IBM has released a security update to address several vulnerabilities in its products,the most important ones:
- AIX
- 7.1.5
- 7.2.3
- 7.2.4
- 7.2.2
- IBM DRM
- 2.0.6
- IBM Enterprise Content Management Text Search
- 5.5.4.0
- IBM Enterprise Content Management Text Search
- 5.5.6.0
- FileNet Content Manager
- 5.5.4
- 5.5.6
- IBM Elastic Storage Server
- 5.3.0 – 5.3.7.1
Threats:
Attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:
- Denial of service (DoS)
Best practice and Recommendations:
The CERT team encourages users to review IBM security advisory and apply the necessary updates, the most important ones:
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-multiple-vulnerabilities-in-ibm-java-sdk-affect-aix-6/
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-data-risk-manager-is-affected-by-multiple-vulnerabilities-5/
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-multiple-apache-pdfbox-security-vulnerabilities-2/
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-a-vulnerability-in-ibm-websphere-application-server-affects-ibm-spectrum-scale-packaged-in-ibm-elastic-storage-server-cve-2020-5258/