Courtesy of Sun Microsystems. Patches for snmpXdmid. (Solaris 2.6 through 8) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:06:00 PDT From: "secureat_private" <body_-19735124358989501at_private> To: jdysonat_private Subject: Sun Security Bulletin #00207 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ________________________________________________________________________________ Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin Bulletin Number: #00207 Date: August 30, 2001 Cross-Ref: CERT Advisory CA-2001-05 Title: snmpXdmid ________________________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this Security Bulletin is provided "AS IS." Sun makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect to the information contained in this Security Bulletin. 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If any of the above provisions are held to be in violation of applicable law, void, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, then such provisions are waived to the extent necessary for this disclaimer to be otherwise enforceable in such jurisdiction. ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Bulletins Topics Sun announces the release of patches for Solaris(tm) 8, 7, and 2.6 (SunOS(tm) 5.8, 5.7, and 5.6) which relate to an snmpXdmid vulnerability reported in CERT CA-2001-05. Sun recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4 immediately on systems running SunOS 5.8, 5.7, and 5.6 which use snmpXdmid. 2. Who is Affected Vulnerable: SunOS 5.8, 5.8_x86, 5.7, 5.7_x86, 5.6, 5.6_x86 3. Understanding the Vulnerability The snmpXdmid utility is a subagent in the Solstice Enterprise Agent Desktop Management Interface package. It maps Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) requests forwarded by the Master Agent (snmpdx(1M)) into one or more equivalent Desktop Management Interface (DMI) requests and vice-versa. The snmpXdmid subagent runs as a daemon with root privileges on the system. snmpXdmid contains a buffer overflow in the code for translating DMI indications to SNMP events. This buffer overflow is exploitable by local or remote intruders to gain root privileges. The issue was discovered by Job de Haas (jobat_private) of ITSX BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (http://www.itsx.com). CERT Advisory CA-2001-05 is available from: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-05.html 4. List of Patches The following patches are available in relation to the above problem. OS Version Patch ID __________ _________ SunOS 5.8 108869-07 SunOS 5.8_x86 108870-07 SunOS 5.7 107709-15 SunOS 5.7_x86 107710-15 SunOS 5.6 106787-15 SunOS 5.6_x86 106872-15 _______________________________________________________________________________ Sun acknowledges with thanks, Job de Haas (jobat_private) of ITSX BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (http://www.itsx.com), for bringing this issue to our attention. _______________________________________________________________________________ APPENDICES A. Patches listed in this bulletin are available to all Sun customers at: http://sunsolve.sun.com/securitypatch B. Checksums for the patches listed in this bulletin are available at: ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/CHECKSUMS C. Sun security bulletins are available at: http://sunsolve.sun.com/security D. Sun Security Coordination Team's PGP key is available at: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pgpkey.txt E. 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