=============================================================================== Readme file for: IBM Platform Grid Management Service Product/Component Release: 8.0.1 SAS Version Update name: 471807 Fix ID: GMS—8.0.1build471807 APAR: P102408 Publication date: 25 Oct 2017 Last modified: 31 Oct 2017 This update resolves the following reported issues: This update is related to the LSF patch that addresses a security vulnerability for CVE-2017-1205. The patch includes an enhanced gabd. GMS is a client of LSF cluster and depends on eauth to communicate with LSF. If a site has applied the LSF patch and used eauth.cve to replace the default eauth, this fix needs be applied to GMS at the same time for the authentication between GMS and LSF in the LSF cluster monitored by GMS. =============================================================================== ========================= CONTENTS ========================= 1. About Platform GMS for SAS 2. Supported operating systems 3. Products or components affected 4. Installation and Configuration 5. Copyright ========================= 1. About IBM Platform GMS for SAS ========================= Platform Grid Management Service is a communications product that allows Platform LSF to communicate with your own graphical user interface. ========================= 2. Supported operating systems ========================= RHEL 5/6/7 64-bit SLES 10/11 64-bit win2003-x64 AIX: aix5-64 HP: hpuxia64 Solaris: sparc-sol10-64 Solaris: x86-64-sol10 ========================= 3. Products or components affected ========================= gabd ========================= 4. Installation and Configuration ========================= 4.1 Before you install ------------------------ Apply this Fix to IBM Platform GMS only if you have already applied the eauth.cve Fix to your IBM Platform LSF cluster. 4.2 Install the Fix --------------------- (LSF_TOP=Full path to the top-level installation directory of LSF) 1) Log on to the LSF master host as administrator 2) Stop the gabd process and kill eauth process 3) Backup the and replace file /gms/etc/gabd 4) Start the gabd again ========================= 5. Copyright ========================= ©Copyright IBM Corporation 2017 U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. IBM®, the IBM logo and ibm.com®, are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at "Copyright and trademark information" at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml.