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IBM Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in bellmail affects AIX (CVE-2016-8972)

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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There is a vulnerability in bellmail that impacts AIX.

CVE(s): CVE-2016-8972

Affected product(s) and affected version(s):


 AIX 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
VIOS 2.2.x
The following fileset levels are vulnerable:
key_fileset = aix
Fileset Lower Level Upper Level KEY
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bos.net.tcp.client 6.1.9.0 6.1.9.200 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.client 7.1.3.0 7.1.3.47 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.client 7.1.4.0 7.1.4.30 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.client_core 7.2.0.0 7.2.0.1 key_w_fs
bos.net.tcp.client_core 7.2.1.0 7.2.1.0 key_w_fs
Note: To find out whether the affected filesets are installed on your systems, refer to the lslpp command found in AIX user's guide.
Example: lslpp -L | grep -i bos.net.tcp.client

Refer to the following reference URLs for remediation and additional vulnerability details:
Source Bulletin: http://ift.tt/2h3KmS2
X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/2ibY4BQ

from IBM Product Security Incident Response Team http://ift.tt/2h6Rlfb