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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2007.0585 -- [Solaris]
Solaris 10 Systems May Panic or Hang When Running Certain DTrace D Programs
3 August 2007
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Publisher: Sun Microsystems
Operating System: Solaris 10
Impact: Denial of Service
Access: Existing Account
Original Bulletin:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-26-103021-1
Comment: Note that this is not a security issue unless untrusted users
have been granted the PRIV_DTRACE_USER privilege, which is
not granted by default.
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Sun(sm) Alert Notification
* Sun Alert ID: 103021
* Synopsis: Solaris 10 Systems May Panic or Hang When Running
Certain DTrace D Programs
* Category: Security
* Product: Solaris 10 Operating System
* BugIDs: 6479756
* Avoidance: Patch, Workaround
* State: Resolved
* Date Released: 30-Jul-2007
* Date Closed: 30-Jul-2007
* Date Modified:
1. Impact
A security vulnerability in the DTrace (see dtrace(1M)) dynamic
tracing framework may allow a local user who has privileges to run
certain DTrace programs to cause the system to panic or become
unresponsive. This is a type of Denial of Service (DoS). The minimum
privilege required is the PRIV_DTRACE_USER privilege (see
privileges(5)).
2. Contributing Factors
This issue can occur in the following releases:
SPARC platform
* Solaris 10 without patch 125100-10
x86 Platform
* Solaris 10 without patch 125101-10
Note: This issue does not affect Solaris 8 or Solaris 9.
3. Symptoms
If this issue is encountered on a SPARC system, especially those based
on the UltraSPARC T1 processor, the system will typically panic with
an error message of "send mondo timeout".
It is unlikely for this issue to occur on x86 based systems but if it
does occur the system will appear to be either hung or extremely slow.
4. Relief/Workaround
If users have been granted any of the DTrace privileges then those
privileges can be removed until the patches have been applied. The
additional privileges may have been configured via policy.conf(4) or
user_attr(4). If the privileges have been configured directly in the
local "/etc/user_attr" file, then they can be removed using the
usermod(1M) utility as shown:
# usermod -K limitpriv=all,!dtrace_user,!dtrace_proc,!dtrace_kernel user
Note: Privileges may also be assigned via an execution profile (see
exec_attr(4)) or even to running processes using ppriv(1).
5. Resolution
This issue is addressed in the following releases:
SPARC platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 125100-10 or later
x86 platform
* Solaris 10 with patch 125101-10 or later
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