TADDM and the BASH vulnerability known as "Shellshock"

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Abstract

TADDM uses OS resources available on systems and needs no patching of TADDM code for this vulnerability.

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The BASH vulnerability known as Shellshock is an Operating System (OS) vulnerability. Each OS vendor will supply a fix for the vulnerability (a patch to be applied by a system administrator).

Because TADDM uses OS resources that are available on the machine, there is no action or fix that needs to be taken for TADDM as a product. Applying available OS fixes will be enough.

Please contact your Operating System company for a fix. Many of these companies have already provided fixes on their web sites.
For further information, the US-CERT site has a page on the vulnerability here:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-7169

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Product Synonym

TADDM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager

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Document Information

Modified date:
26 September 2022

UID

swg21685553

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