Re: Fix for privilege escalation bug

2015-03-12 Thread Bjoern Rackoll
Hi Thomas! > We have a considerable number of Linux TSM clients running on 32 bit > x86 processors and currently using either 6.2.2.0 or 6.2.4.0 client > code. These client code levels have the privilege escalation bug > described in the IBM bulletin " Tivoli Storage Manager Stack-based > Buffer O

Fix for privilege escalation bug

2015-03-12 Thread Thomas Denier
We have a considerable number of Linux TSM clients running on 32 bit x86 processors and currently using either 6.2.2.0 or 6.2.4.0 client code. These client code levels have the privilege escalation bug described in the IBM bulletin " Tivoli Storage Manager Stack-based Buffer Overflow Elevation o

Re: Re: Fix for privilege escalation bug

2015-03-10 Thread David Bronder
I think the README is just incompletely labeled. If you follow the link, the target page is titled "Linux x86/x86_64 Client Requirements", and the section for version 6.2 includes both "X86" and "AMD64/EM64T" as supported hardware. The dsmtca fixes in 6.2.5.4 would be at that code level, too, not

Re: Fix for privilege escalation bug

2015-03-10 Thread Skylar Thompson
I think that is the case, but you can workaround the bug by deleting or removing access to the dsmtca binary. On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 03:56:24PM +, Thomas Denier wrote: > We have a considerable number of Linux TSM clients running on 32 bit x86 > processors and currently using either 6.2.2.0 o