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IBM HMC Sendmail and OpenSSH Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA20723
Release Date: 2006-06-22
Popularity: 7,613 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC)

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0058
CVE-2006-0225


Description:
IBM has acknowledged a vulnerability and a weakness in IBM HMC, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges, and by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA19342
SA18579

The vulnerability and weakness have been reported in version 5.2.1 (V5 R2.1).

Solution:
Apply security fix MH00688.
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/.../hmc/power5/download/v521.Update.html

Original Advisory:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/...ower5/install/v52.Readme.html#MH00688

Other References:
SA18579:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18579/

SA19342:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19342/


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