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#1 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 01:49 AM

What fixpak should we use fro a production machine? FP7 or FP7a? What's
the difference?

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Burkhard Schultheis
Tele Data Electronic, Wagnerstr. 10, D-76448 Durmersheim
Email: schultheis@tde-online.de
Phone: +49-7245-9287-21, Fax: +49-7245-9287-30

#2 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 01:49 AM

Burkhard Schultheis schrieb:
> What fixpak should we use fro a production machine? FP7 or FP7a? What's
> the difference?
>

Now I see, there is a FP7a for AIX 4.3.3, but not for Linux IA32, only a
checksum file! What's with the fixpak?

Regards,
--
Burkhard Schultheis
Tele Data Electronic, Wagnerstr. 10, D-76448 Durmersheim
Email: schultheis@tde-online.de
Phone: +49-7245-9287-21, Fax: +49-7245-9287-30

#3 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 01:49 AM

FP6 and FP7, have both been replaced with FP6a and FP7a respectively. These
are currently being uploaded to the ftp site
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes The uploads should be
finished shortly

"Burkhard Schultheis" <schultheis@tde-online.de> wrote in message
news:2s4i2dF1gr8nqU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Burkhard Schultheis schrieb:
> > What fixpak should we use fro a production machine? FP7 or FP7a? What's
> > the difference?
> >
>
> Now I see, there is a FP7a for AIX 4.3.3, but not for Linux IA32, only a
> checksum file! What's with the fixpak?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Burkhard Schultheis
> Tele Data Electronic, Wagnerstr. 10, D-76448 Durmersheim
> Email: schultheis@tde-online.de
> Phone: +49-7245-9287-21, Fax: +49-7245-9287-30

#4 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 01:49 AM

To my knowledge, FP7a has some additional fixes for security problems
discovered in the original FP7 - everything else should be the same.

When IBM discovers a security hole, a top priority is made to address
the problem in all available fixpaks that are identified as containing
it. An example of a problem that would require a security fix would be
a stack overwrites that potentially allowed a user to input malicious
code directly into the executable area. In such cases, the
corresponding fixpaks are pulled and a replacement fixpak with the "a"
suffix is substituted.

No additional functionality beyond addressing the security concern is
added to the "a" fixpaks.

Burkhard Schultheis wrote:
> What fixpak should we use fro a production machine? FP7 or FP7a? What's
> the difference?
>
> Regards,

#5 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 01:50 AM

> To my knowledge, FP7a has some additional fixes for security problems
> discovered in the original FP7 - everything else should be the same.
>
> When IBM discovers a security hole, a top priority is made to address
> the problem in all available fixpaks that are identified as containing
> it. An example of a problem that would require a security fix would be
> a stack overwrites that potentially allowed a user to input malicious
> code directly into the executable area. In such cases, the
> corresponding fixpaks are pulled and a replacement fixpak with the "a"
> suffix is substituted.
>
> No additional functionality beyond addressing the security concern is
> added to the "a" fixpaks.
>
Fixpak 4a contains a fix for a certain SQL statement that returns the wrong
answer. This is obviously also considered an urgent fix, probably more so
than a security problem.

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