InterSystems Product News, Alerts, and Advisories

InterSystems has discovered security vulnerabilities in Caché and therefore also in Ensemble, HealthShare and TrakCare. While those vulnerabilities were only recently discovered, they impact all versions of Caché and all versions of Ensemble and HealthShare. The vulnerabilities were corrected in InterSystems IRIS Data Platform before the product was released.

InterSystems has corrected two defects that can cause SQL outer joins to return incorrect results. These defects can also impact DeepSeein Caché and Ensemble, as well as InterSystems Business Intelligence in InterSystems IRIS; in these cases, building and synchronizing some analytic models may result in build errors.

Important Considerations for InterSystems Clients

InterSystems continuously monitors our systems for any evidence of attempts to exploit vulnerabilities such as the newly announced Meltdown and Spectre attack vectors.

InterSystems has encountered defects in Linux which can corrupt copies of journal files that are generated on a mirror backup or async member; this occurs only in certain specific configurations. The original mirror journal file created on the primary member is not affected.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that may result in corruption of Unicode data on a shadow system whose source is an async mirror member.

InterSystems has discovered a security vulnerability in Caché and therefore also in Ensemble, HealthShare and TrakCare. While this vulnerability was only recently discovered, it impacts all versions of Caché and all versions of Ensemble and HealthShare.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that may, in rare circumstances, result in database degradation on UNIX and Linux platforms.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that may result in missing updates when utilizing Caché online backup.

This is an addendum to the Alert published on October 14, 2015 – Alert: Database Defragmentation.