What is new this week, you ask? Well, in IBM i PTF Land, there is a PTF patch for IBM i 7.2 – yeah, you heard that right – that was released on Halloween day and that addresses a security vulnerability that was made public on October 6 (CVE-2023-40377) relating to IBM Backup, Recovery & Media Services for i. Because of this flaw, the IBM i stack is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation, which is not a good thing. The security vulnerability patch is being made available even though IBM i 7.2 was taken off regular Software Maintenance on … The post IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 45 appeared first on IT Jungle. Read More