On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 16:27:04 +0200, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My humble opinion is the isolated devices are not in danger even if the 
> microcode has some vulnerabilities.
> HMC is good example of such device. You don't install anything on that, 
> you don't connect it to the Internet just like PC, the connection to IBM 
> support system is quite different thing.
> While it's good to fix any vulnerability if possible, I wouldn't worry 
> about bash in HMC.

The DS8K HMCs are PCs running Linux connected to our corporate network, so much 
mayhem could be possible if exploited.  PCI and others dictate that we address 
such vulnerabilities.

Dana

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