A security vulnerability in the Solaris NFSv4 Server Kernel Module 'nfs_portmon' tunable may allow certain remote unprivileged users to gain unauthorized network access to share resources, thereby allowing those users to access (read and write) arbitrary files.

Sun acknowledges with thanks, Anton Lundin for bringing this issue to our attention

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A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Sun Java System Access Manager Cross-Domain Controller (CDC) may allow an unprivileged remote user to inject code into web pages served by the Access Manager CDC which can result in various impacts including the theft of sensitive information such as cookie information, access to user credentials, or the hijacking of sessions.

The Cross-Domain Controller (CDC) is a servlet that communicates with policy agents outside its own domain, and then checks for a user's Single Sign-On (SSO) information.
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Multiple security vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader 9.0 and earlier for Solaris 10 may allow remote unprivileged users to execute arbitrary code or crash the Adobe Reader application, thereby causing a Denial of Service (DoS) condition. These vulnerabilities may be exploited via specially crafted PDF files.

These issues are also described in the following documents:

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CVE-2009-0159 describes a security issue in the ntpq(1M) daemon which could allow remote NTP servers to crash the ntpq program or to execute arbitrary code when ntpq is used to query them.

Sun has examined the implementation of the ntpq(1M) command that is shipped with Solaris and has determined that although the affected code is present and has been fixed as Sun bug ID 6831824, it is not possible to exploit this issue on Solaris to execute arbitrary code or to crash the ntpq command.

tags: security solaris vulnerability

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A security vulnerability in the Solaris auditconfig(1M) command may allow a local user who has been assigned an RBAC execution profile which specifies additional privileges for auditconfig(1M) such as the "Audit Control" profile, to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges specified in the RBAC profile.

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Security vulnerability has been found in the Tomcat Connector (mod_jk)
module for Apache HTTP server which affects the Apache 1.3 web server
bundled with Solaris 10 and Solaris 9.

This issue may allow a remote unprivileged user who provides a specially crafted
HTTP requests to bypass access control and gain access to unauthorized data.

Additional information regarding this issue is available at:

CVE-2008-5519 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5519

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A security vulnerability in the Solaris Virtual Network Terminal Server
daemon (vntsd(1M)) for Logical Domains (LDoms) may allow local
unprivileged users within the control domain to gain unauthorized
access to the console of a guest domain.

2. Contributing Factors

SPARC Platform

• Solaris 10 without patch 141778-01
• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_41 through snv_108
  

Notes: Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 are not affected as they do not support LDoms.

Solaris on the x86 Platform is not affected by this  issue as Logical Domains (LDoms)
software is supported only on the SPARC Platform.

3. Symptoms

There are no predictable symptoms to indicate that this issue has been
exploited to gain unauthorized console access to guest domains.

4. Workaround

Until the resolution patches are applied, it is possible to
workaround this issue via one of the following options:

1. Disable console access to the guest domains. This may be
done by executing the following command:

ldmctrl:#> svcadm disable vntsd

2. Allow console access to guest domains only from a separate sparse root zone.
This may be done by executing the following commands:

ldmctrl:#> svcadm disable vntsd
ldmctrl:#> svccfg -s vntsd setprop vntsd/listen_addr = <IP-address-of-sparse-root-zone>
ldmctrl:#> svcadm refresh vntsd
ldmctrl:#> svcadm enable vntsd

Firewall rules may be required to allow access only from the
sparse root zone to the ports used by the vntsd(1M) daemon.
Refer to firewall documentation for more information on configuring the tool.

5. Resolution

This issue is addressed in the following releases:

SPARC Platform

• Solaris 10 with patch 141778-01 or later
• OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_109 or later
  

For more information on Security Sun Alerts, see Technical Instruction ID 213557
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-61-213557-1

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A security vulnerability in the Solaris IP(7P) multicast reception may allow local unprivileged users to leak kernel memory, thereby causing a Denial of Service (DoS) condition.

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A memory leak in the Solaris Ultra-SPARC T2 crypto provider device driver (n2cp(7D)) may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to cause Denial of Service (DoS) to the system as a whole.
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Two race condition vulnerabilities in the Solaris Event Port API may allow a local unprivileged user to panic the system, which is a type of Denial of Service (DoS).

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Information disclosure security vulnerability in OpenSolaris smbfs(7FS) when using default mount permissions may allow a local unprivileged user unauthorized access to read contents of the files and list directories on a CIFS (Common Internet File System) mounted volume.
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The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) as shipped with OpenSolaris is impacted by multiple security vulnerabilities affecting the "imagetops", "texttops" and "hpgltops" filters. These vulnerabilities may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the CUPS service (which usually runs as root).

These issues are described in the following documents:

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A Security vulnerability in GnuTLS (libgnutls(3)) library X.509 certificate chain validation may cause client applications to trust certificate chains in which the last certificate is an arbitrary trusted, self-signed certificate. This may allow a remote unprivileged user to carry out man-in-the-middle type of attacks using forged serer certificates.

Evolution(evolution(1)) and Remote Desktop Applications are examples of applications which use this vulnerable library.

This vulnerability is also described in the following document:

• CVE-2008-4989 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4989
  

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A security vulnerability in the Solaris rpc.nisd(1M) daemon may allow remote privileged users on certain NIS+ clients to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) condition to a NIS+ server, preventing the server from responding to all NIS+ client requests.
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A security vulnerability in the ASN.1 handling in the OpenSSL product (see openssl(5)) shipped with Solaris may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) to applications calling the "ASN1_STRING_print_ex()" printing function.

Additional information regarding this issue can be found in the following document:

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