Does anyone know if IBM is releasing a patch for the DSK? Someone posted IBM 
acknowledged the HMC is exposed. 

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> On Oct 1, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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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