Log4J Vulnerability and IBM i

Last Updated on 26 December 2021 by Roberto De Pedrini (Updated December 26, 2021) Thousands of blog posts and social media have already been written on the vulnerability of the Apache Log4j Library (also known as Log4Shell). Even newspapers and television stations are talking about it. Indeed it is a “bug” that could create quite a few problems, considering that this Open Source library is used in thousands or perhaps millions of applications, from servers to desktops up to the whole IOT world. Not being a security expert, I limited myself to trying to understand how much this vulnerability can affect my and my client’s IBM i systems by following the advice of industry experts. …