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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2015.0222 Security Bulletin: Buffer Overflow vulnerability affects IBM i Access for Windows (CVE-2014-8920) 29 January 2015 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: IBM i Access for Windows Publisher: IBM Operating System: Windows Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Console/Physical Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2014-8920 Original Bulletin: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020518 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Security Bulletin: Buffer Overflow vulnerability affects IBM i Access for Windows (CVE-2014-8920) Document information More support for: IBM i Access for Windows Software version: 5.4.0, 6.1.0, 7.1.0 Operating system(s): IBM i Reference #: N1020518 Modified date: 2015-01-19 Security Bulletin Summary Buffer Overflow affects product IBM i Access for Windows, 5770-XE1. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2014-8920 DESCRIPTION: IBM i Access for Windows Data Transfer Program is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. A local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system as the current user. CVSS Base Score: 4.4 CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/99311 for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) Affected Products and Versions Releases V5R4, 6.1 and 7.1 of IBM i Access for Windows are affected. Remediation/Fixes The issue can be fixed by applying a PTF to IBM i Access for Windows. The IBM i Access for Windows, 5770-XE1, product will be fixed via the 7.1 service release which can be used to access all supported releases of the IBM i server. The interim fix, prior to the service release, can be obtained via this link: Product 5770-XE1 Release 7.1 ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/as400/products/clientaccess/win32/v7r1m0/files/DataXfer/SE60990 Important note: IBM recommends that all users running unsupported versions of affected products upgrade to supported and fixed version of affected products. Workarounds and Mitigations N/A Get Notified about Future Security Bulletins Subscribe to My Notifications to be notified of important product support alerts like this. References Complete CVSS Guide On-line Calculator V2 Related information IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog Acknowledgement Fernando Muoz, from the NULL group *The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin. 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