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IBM HMC Version 3 Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA27970  
Release Date: 2007-12-07
Last Update: 2007-12-11

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC)


CVE reference:CVE-2007-6294 (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.

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

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 3 release 3.7. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
HMC Version 3:
Install PTF U814685.

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

Changelog:
2007-12-11: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
IBM:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/...criptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=4036



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