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TITLE:
IBM HMC Sendmail and OpenSSH Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20723

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20723/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC)
http://secunia.com/product/3967/

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/set2/sas/f/hmc/power5/download/v521.Update.html

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/hmc/power5/install/v52.Readme.html#MH00688

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA18579:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18579/

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

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