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IBM HMC Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA27961  
Release Date: 2007-12-07
Last Update: 2007-12-12

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

OS:IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC)


CVE reference:CVE-2007-5135 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-6293 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-6305 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM HMC, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and potentially by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) Unspecified errors in some HMC commands can be exploited to gain escalated privileges.

2) An Off-By-One error within OpenSSL can potentially be exploited to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 6 release 1.3 and in version 7 release 3.2.0. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Apply patches.

HMC Version 6:
Install PTF MH01064.

HMC Version 7:
Install PTF MH01065.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2007-12-12: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
IBM:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/...criptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4037
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/...criptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4038

Other References:
SA22130:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22130/



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