Courtesy of Sun Microsystems. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:58:01 PDT From: "secureat_private" <body_3788431-409677672at_private> To: jdysonat_private Subject: Sun Security Bulletin #00210 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ________________________________________________________________________________ Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin Bulletin Number: #00210 Date: October 23, 2001 Cross-Ref: CERT Vulnerability Note VU#36866 Title: ufsrestore ________________________________________________________________________________ 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, 2.6, 2.5.1, and 2.5 (SunOS(tm) 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, 5.5.1, and 5.5) which relate to a vulnerability in ufsrestore(1M). Sun recommends that you install the patches listed in section 4 immediately on systems running SunOS 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, 5.5.1, and 5.5 which use ufsrestore. 2. Who is Affected Vulnerable: SunOS 5.8, 5.8_x86, 5.7, 5.7_x86, 5.6, 5.6_x86, 5.5.1, 5.5.1_x86, 5.5, 5.5_x86 Not vulnerable: Solaris 8 04/01*, Solaris 8 Maintenance Update 4* and later update releases * To determine if one is running Solaris 8 04/01 or Solaris 8 Maintenance Update 4 or later, check the contents of the /etc/release file. 3. Understanding the Vulnerability The ufsrestore utility restores files from backup media created with the ufsdump command. A vulnerability has been found in ufsrestore which, if exploited, could allow an unprivileged local user to gain unauthorized root access. This issue was discovered by Job de Haas (jobat_private) of ITSX BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (http://www.itsx.com). CERT Vulnerability Note VU#36866 is available from: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/36866 4. List of Patches The following patches are available in relation to the above problem. OS Version Patch ID __________ _________ SunOS 5.8 109091-04 110387-02 SunOS 5.8_x86 109092-04 110402-02 SunOS 5.7 106793-07 SunOS 5.7_x86 106794-07 SunOS 5.6 105722-06 SunOS 5.6_x86 105723-06 SunOS 5.5.1 103640-35 SunOS 5.5.1_x86 103641-35 SunOS 5.5 103261-08 SunOS 5.5_x86 103262-08 _______________________________________________________________________________ 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. 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